Railroad not
final say
on Shober
Bridge plan
Lawyer says city
can decide fate

Movement in Cabarrus
leading state effort to
establish new economy

BY SHELLEY SMITH

ssmith@salisburypost.com

A 6-year-old recently told Newton that people don’t need farmers
because food comes from grocery
stores.

More than 50 people wanting
the city to save the Shober
Bridge attended the Salisbury
City Council meeting this past
week, some speaking in favor of
a rehabilitation, and against a
demolition that Norfolk Southern Railroad insists on.
The Historic Salisbury Foundation presented a detailed presentation to the City Council. The
largest portion of the presentation came from the foundation’s
lawyer, who said the railroad
has no power over the city’s decision to rehabilitate or tear
down the bridge.
Robin Currin, the foundation’s lawyer, tried to clear up
some important legal issues.
The key one she addressed
was Norfolk Southern Railroad’s
position in the city’s decision to
rehabilitate or build a bridge to
handle two or three tracks.
“It is my position that the railroad does not have the ability to
stop the city from rehabilitating
the bridge,” she said. “At the
end of the day, the decision is
yours.”
Other speakers included
David Bergstone, who spoke of
the bridge’s history; Jack Thomson, who presented a rare historical photograph; and engineer
David Fischetti, who said the rehabilitation would be feasible.
Bergstone, a historian, presented historical details on the
bridge, beginning with its erection in 1857.

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See BRIDGE, 9A

BY EMILY FORD

sioners.
“We want to build an economy
here that doesn’t go away on the
ONCORD — In a bold atwhim of a CEO,” said Aaron Newtempt to reconnect people
ton, recently hired as the county’s
who eat food with people who first local food program coordinagrow it, Cabarrus County has
tor.
launched several agriculture proAg initiatives include a training
grams, including plans to build the
facility for rookie farmers, a 21state’s first publically owned
member council to guide food polislaughter facility.
cy, a countywide food assessment
Cabarrus leads the state in esand plans for a $1 million, 4,000tablishing a local
square-foot slaughfood economy, ofterhouse.
ficials say.
“Their unique
“They are cerapproach is comtainly a role modprehensive in
el for North Carscope and detailed
olina,” said Dr.
in putting the critiNancy Creamer,
cal pieces into acN.C. State Unition,” Creamer
versity horticulsaid in an e-mail to
ture professor
the Post.
and director of
She said CabarSquash grown at the Cabarrus rus leaders underthe Center for EnCounty incubator farm, which stand the economvironmental
Farming Systems. teaches people to grow food.
ic development poThree years
tential of a local
ago, Cabarrus began implementing
food system.
a strategy to build a local food sysAdvocates claim such a system
tem. That’s an economy that incan create jobs, save energy and
cludes all the processes involved in
even cut health care costs associatfeeding people — growing, harvest- ed with diet-related diseases like
ing, processing, packaging, distribdiabetes and obesity when people
uting, marketing, consuming, diseat fresh, nutritious food.
posing and recycling.
A $625,000 state grant and monCounty Manager John Day and
ey set aside in the county’s reserve
County Extension Director Debbie
account for sustainability efforts
Bost are spearheading the effort,
will pay for most of the initiatives.
with support from county commisA local food economy aims to
eford@salisburypost.com

C

Candidates in
runoff differ
in approach
BY KARISSA MINN

EMILY FORD/SALISBURY POST

Organic farmer Brad Hinckley cures garlic in a dryer at the training farm in
Cabarrus County. He can get up to $4 for a large head of organic garlic.
create new income opportunities
for farmers and promote sustainable agriculture practices that can
be used year after year, generation
after generation.
“It’s hard to get people to realize
they need to know where their food
comes from,” said Brent Barbee,
manager of a family farm and a
member of the county’s new Food
Policy Council. “To get the county-

On the
issues...

HALL

wide push will help tremendously.”
•••

MITCHELL

Little excitement
can be found in
statewide races
BY GARY D. ROBERTSON

Incentives for Toyota Racing Development (2007)

kminn@salisburypost.com

Voters will have the chance Tuesday to
select which of two Republican county commissioners will get the party’s third spot on
the November ballot.
Rowan County commissioners Chad
Mitchell and Tina Hall placed third and
fourth in the May 4 GOP primary. Mitchell
didn’t receive a large enough share of the
votes to avoid Tuesday’s runoff election.
Polls will be open
for voting from 6:30
a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Mitchell, 34, of
Faith, is a teacher at
East Rowan High
School. He is running
for a third term on the
Board of Commissioners, and Hall is seeking a second.
Hall, 59, of Mount Ulla, is retired from the
Rowan-Salisbury School System, where she
had been a teacher, assistant principal, director and principal.
The candidates have similar voting
records and both consider themselves to be
conservative. Hall switched her party affiliation from Democrat to Republican in 2009,
and she now says she feels “very comfortable” in the Republican Party.
Mitchell said where the two differ is often in their style and their approach to is-

Associated Press

Allowing alcohol sales for Smoke Out at the
county fairgrounds (2007)

RALEIGH — North Carolina primary election
runoffs usually lack the vigor of the first primary as
voters draw their attention to summer breaks rather
than ballots.
But the buzz about the race between U.S. Senate
wannabes Cal Cunningham and
Elaine Marshall has been particularly muffled.
Save for some sniping by the candidates in a pair of TV debates over
campaign contributions they’ve received and a flap over Social Security, the race to decide the challenger
to Republican Sen. Richard Burr has
been fought behind the scenes at
phone banks and in the mailboxes of CUNNINGHAM
Democrats and unaffiliated voters.
Election officials and Democratic operatives estimate between
100,000 and 150,000 people may actually participate in the Senate
runoff, compared to the 425,000 who
chose among six candidates in the
May 4 primary.
The Senate runoff “hasn’t had any
pop with the voters,” said former Lt.
Gov. Dennis Wicker, who briefly con- MARSHALL
sidered entering the Senate primary
but has endorsed neither Democrat.
“When people talk about this race, they just sort of
shrug their shoulders.”
Tuesday’s election also includes three GOP congressional races, with the 8th District race getting
the most attention as the state Republican Party de-

Purchase of 35 acres on China Grove Road
for a future school (2007)
Naming Jon Barber chairman to replace
Arnold Chamberlain (2007, defeated)
Sale of 33 acres at Summit Corporate Center
to Keith Corporation at a discounted price (2008)
Purchase of nine Dodge Chargers
for the Sheriff’s Office (2008)
Feasibility study for Winn-Dixie building
as school office location (2008)
$7.2 million in tax incentives for Duke
Energy’s Buck Steam Station expansion (2008)
$15 million in tax incentives for
Southern Power expansion (2009)
Seeking resignations from all Rowan-Kannapolis
ABC Board members (2009, defeated)
Offering the old DSS building to the
school system (2010, defeated)

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10 ways to boost local food economy
1. Cook with fresh, seasonal, local foods.
Cooking at home is often healthier and
cheaper than eating out.

6. Talk about where food comes from.
Community conversations enhance awareness, build partnerships and lead to action.

2. Buy from local farmers and food businesses.
Make food purchases as directly as possible. Seek out restaurants that serve local
foods.

7. Promote transparency in packaged foods.
Ask retailers for labels that detail how,
where and by whom food is grown, raised and
processed.

3. Grow your food.
If you don’t have space, land or know-how,
join a community garden.

8. Support the development of community farm
and garden trusts.
They help protect affordable, long-term access to farmland.

4. Advocate for healthy foods at school and
day care.
Encourage them to serve food from local
farmers. Visit www.farmtoschool.org.

9. Get kids involved.
Cook and shop with your children. Take
them to the farmers’ market and to visit
farms.

5. Organize.
To start a Community-Supported Agriculture program (CSA) or farmers market at
work, go to www.cefs.ncsu.edu and click on
“resources.”
To get your church involved, go to
www.cometothetablenc.org.
To start a local meat-buying club, go to
www.ncchoices.com.

10. Monitor local food policy developments
at the state level.
To get e-mail updates, go to
www.cefs.ncsu.edu and click on “get involved.”
— Source: “From Farm to Fork: A Guide
to Building North Carolina’s Sustainable Local Food Economy”

“At the end of the
day, that’s how you
get people hooked.
This isn’t food that
was picked before it
was ripe, shipped
halfway around the
world and then sat
on a store shelf for a
week.”

FROM 1A

Newton laughs when he
recounts the story, but the
child’s misconception
demonstrates
a real problem that the
part-time
farmer wants
to help solve.
People are
too far reNEWTON
moved from
their food,
said Newton, co-author of “A
Nation of Farmers.”
“A local food economy is
about keeping Cabarrus
County dollars in Cabarrus
County,” he said. “It’s paying
your neighbor to grow food
for you, not paying someone
around the world to grow
food for you.”
The local food movement
in the Charlotte region is
about a decade behind western North Carolina and the
Triangle area, Newton said.
But demand is growing,
and Cabarrus has positioned
itself as a leader to develop a
meaningful local food network, he said.
If the financial, environmental and health arguments
don’t convince people to support the endeavor, Newton
appeals to their tastebuds.
“At the end of the day,
that’s how you get people
hooked,” he said. “This isn’t
food that was picked before
it was ripe, shipped halfway
around the world and then
sat on a store shelf for a
week before it was eaten.”

AARON NEWTON

Jill Lambert washes carrots at the Cabarrus County incubator
farm, which has a waiting list of 80 seeking to get training.

Cabarrus County’s first local
food program coordinator

These five initiatives are
paid staff person.
funded through several
• The county food assess- sources, primarily a $625,000
ment, a yearlong effort costgrant from the N.C. Agriculing about $30,000, will deterture Development & Farmmine what local food people
land Preservation Trust
eat and where they buy it.
Fund. The county is pursuing
The county will survey insti- an additional $300,000 grant.
tutions and households.
The county also will use
The assessment will estab- revenue from a reserve aclish a baseline for the ecocount established for sustainColleen McDaniel transplants nomic impact of local food
ability efforts, which last
tomato seedlings.
and help identify potential
year totaled about $250,000.
markets.
The funds come from de• At the incubator farm,
ferred taxes paid on CabarCruse Meats has a 3,800participants pay a small fee
rus County farm land that
square-foot processing and
to lease one acre of land and
leaves the present-use value
EMILY FORD/SALISBURY POST retail facility in Cabarrus
learn everything from plant- program.
And the county will use
Colleen McDaniel hauls organic potting soil at the farm set County, Bost said. The coun- ing to business planning.
ty will build an additional
Once the businesses are
money that had been allocatup near Concord.
4,000-square-foot harvest
viable, they spin off from the ed for tax incentives for
floor, which
incubator farm and find their Philip Morris before the complus dozens of roadside
“We can build on that,”
Cruse will
own land.
pany closed its cigarette
stands and parking lot vensaid Day, the county managoperate.
• A marketing strategy
manufacturing plant, Day
dors. Barbee said businesses er.
Construc- will promote local foods and
said.
call him every week to set up
A local food economy gention has not
products. Restaurants that
The momentum to build a
a market.
erates wealth that stays in rubegun.
use local ingredients will
local food economy comes
Nearly 80 people are on
ral communities, he said.
• The
have a special designation.
from the county’s agriculture
the waiting list to train at the
“The overall goal is to deFood Policy
The county will approach
community itself, Bost said.
Elma C. Lomax Incubator
velop a more resilient, selfCouncil will
schools, hospitals, even jails
“It really has been a grassFarm near Concord, where
reliant economy in the counidentify and
about using local foods.
roots effort,” she said.
•••
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Robert Ervin’s classmates
at J.C. Price High School
called him “Speedo” for his
prowess on the football field.
Ervin, the star halfback,
recalls fondly the undefeated 1957 state championship
team, and old friends came
up to him Saturday to reminisce about that season.
“Everybody knows me because I was such a terror on
the gridiron,” Ervin says.
But he and other alumni
will tell you the real star this
weekend was J.C. Price High
School itself and what it
meant to the education, social, ethnic and architectural history of Salisbury.
The J.C. Price High School
National Alumni Association
met at the old building Saturday afternoon to celebrate
the school’s recent inclusion
in the National Register of
Historic Places.
Salisbury Mayor Susan
Kluttz made two important
presentations Saturday.
One proclaimed the day as
J.C. Price High School Day in
Salisbury.
The other was the certificate from the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources
certifying that the old high
school property had been entered in the National Regis-

ter by the U.S. Department
of Interior.
The register is a list of properties “significant in American
history, architecture, archaeology and culture.”
“Properties listed therein,” the certification says,
“deserve to be preserved by
their owners as part of the
cultural heritage of our nation.”
“It means a great deal to
our alumni family,” said
Eleanor Qadirah, coordinator
for the National Alumni Historic Project Committee,
which raised money toward
the nomination process.
A plaque with names of all
the alumni and others who
contributed to the project
will hang in the school, which
is owned by the city and now
serves as home for the Salisbury-Rowan Community Action Agency and Head Start.
“It took money to get this
done,” Price National Alumni President Barbara Gaul
said, adding that the building’s continued upkeep and
preservation will mean that
fundraising continues.
“This is only the beginning,” she said. “This starts
the journey.”
The original 14-room
school building was built for
less than $40,000 in the late
months of 1931 and first
housed students in February

Blizzards
with my
boys

MARK WINEKA / SALISBURY POST

Doris Jones, right, both a student and teacher at Price High School, asks some of her former students to stand during a program Saturday in the school’s former library.
1932. It remained the city’s
only black high school
(grades 7-12) through the
1968-69 school year, until integration sent students to today’s Salisbury High.
Over the years, a gymnasium/shop building was
added in 1951 and a senior
high wing and cafeteria in
1956-57.
The alumni had planned
an early afternoon ceremony
outside the front entrance
Saturday, but they moved it

inside to the former library
because of the heat.
Architectural historian
Davyd Foard Hood, who authored the National Register
nomination, said he had thin
knowledge of the school
when he started, but his regard and respect for the
school deepened the more he
learned.
From a construction
standpoint, Price High was
well-built and shows few
cracks in its foundation com-

mon in a structure this old,
Hood said. The interior features still remaining from its
days as a high school also are
impressive, he said, mentioning things such as original
chalkboards and lockers,
built-in-shelves, oak flooring,
an old book room and the 586seat auditorium, which is
“one of the more remarkable
places in Rowan County.”

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SALISBURY POST

Delphic Henderson, Margaret Kelly and Bridget
Henderson enjoy
the music during
Salisbury's Juneteenth Celebration
on Saturday at
Kelsey Scott Park.

Juneteenth offers
fun and fellowship
BY SHELLEY SMITH

ssmith@salisburypost.com

Salisbury’s Juneteenth
Celebration drew a large
crowd to Kelsey Scott Park
on Saturday, with plenty of
good food, cool drinks and
fun fellowship.
Juneteenth, held every
year on June 19, celebrates
the emancipation of slaves
across the nation. The celebration originated in
Galveston, Texas in 1865.
Jill Burch, who started
Salisbury’s Juneteenth celebration in 1994, said the
festival grows every year.
“It’s grown really well,”
she said. “It makes me feel
good that it’s still in existence after 16 years. I
think this is a good networking day for the community.
“People enjoy the music, the talent and the fellowship among each other,
and they also learn about
services in the community.”

Sherry
Hawthorne,
president of the Juneteenth committee, has organized the event for the
past six years. She said her
committee members are
what keep the ball rolling
year after year.
“We have a good committee,” she said. “People
want to see the community
come together, so we make
it happen. Everyone puts
so much work into it.”
Hawthorne said all proceeds from Juneteenth will
go to provide school supplies and uniforms for 200
students in Rowan County.
The supplies will be given
away during a back to
school celebration.
“It’s just a way to give
back,” Hawthorne said.
A big hit at this year’s
Juneteenth celebration
were horseback rides from
Jerinza and Bobbie Torain,
of Siler City.
“Sherry’s my sister-inlaw, and we could not let
her down,” Bobbie Torain

said. “The kids loved it,
and so did the parents. You
don’t get the chance in the
neighborhoods to ride
horses.”
Torain said she, like
Hawthorne, was raised to
help others.
“We were brought up to
help others, and that’s how
you get your blessings,”
she said.
“I feel good about doing
things for everyone else,”
Hawthorne said.
Jakaiya Bethea, 6, said
she enjoyed the horse
rides, but loved the festival in general.
“I really like watching
the shows,” she said.
Brian Allison, 17, of
Troutman, came to Juneteenth with his youth group
from South Iredell AME
Zion Church. The group
was serving food to raise
money for a youth trip to
Raleigh.

Sherry Hawthorne, president of the Juneteenth commitSee JUNETEENTH, 5A tee, dances to the music Saturday at Kelsey Scott Park.

Our youngest son, Benn,
breezed into town for a couple days this past week and
left me with an early Father’s
Day gift, his old iPod.
Over the past four years or
so, it had been through the
college wars.
Its screen now
has a permanent dark spot
and
sound
comes only
from the left
earbud.
He has a
new iPod, one
MARK
with
more
than
five
WINEKA
times the capacity of mine
— as if that matters to me.
Benn cleaned the songs off
his old device and imported a
couple of my CDs and about
eight hours worth of other
music that he thought I would
like. No, it wasn’t Artie Shaw
and Glenn Miller but, hey,
those guys had their moments.
My embarrassing days of
walking around with a clunky
Sony Walkman might be coming to a close.
I guess I’m telling you this
as evidence that my technological advances continue in
baby steps.
It started about three
years ago with a family intervention that forced me to carry a cell phone.
Now at work, I shoot my
own pictures with a Nikon
D40 and post stories for our
website long before they
reach the print edition. The
idea of my taking photos is
comical, given my wife won’t
let me take pictures of the
dog, and I still don’t understand why a story shouldn’t
age a good 12 hours or so before being read.
Home at night, I sit with
the television DVR in a constant “Record this show”
mode while a laptop, appropriately, warms in my lap.
I have this theory that research will surface someday
reporting that laptops cause
a higher rate of cancer in the
groins of laboratory mice,
meaning every new laptop
will come with a government
warning:
“Consult your doctor if you
feel a burning sensation in
the family jewels lasting
more than four hours.”
On a recent road trip, my
wife and I were wondering
how people ever navigated
the
highways
before
Mapquest and GPS devices —
not that we have one, of
course. We looked at each
other for a moment before
recognizing together that
there used to be these paperaccordion things called maps.
A recent morning, I realized I was walking into the office with a laptop and camera
slung over a shoulder and a
cell phone and iPod in my
front pants pockets.
I miss the time when a pen
and notepad were all I really
needed.
On this Father’s Day, I also
miss my boys. They’ve been
gone a long time, of course,
given that both are now out
of college.
But when all my modern
devices are in sleep mode and
a quietness seeps in, I still
think of the afternoons we
spent playing basketball in
the driveway or biking from
one end of Salisbury to another.
I remember our spitting
off the East Innes Street
bridge, trying to hit the railroad tracks below us, or sitting on the grassy hill at
Dairy Queen, fishing into our
cups for the last coolness of
a Blizzard.
It would be great to attend
a ballgame with the boys
again. Or sit on the beach
with them. Or take a day hike
in the Uwharries.
With everything turned
off.
I should text them and let
them know.

You can take your children
on a bear hunt, into a zoo at
night or outside a caterpillar’s
cocoon without leaving home
when you read to them. Learn
fun new ways to read to your
child by attending free reading workshops at Rowan Public Library.
Each year, Rowan Public Library offers different programs for all age groups
throughout the summer. This
year, they have added a new
program for the parents of
children up to age 5, co-sponsored by Smart Start Rowan.
“We take reading to your
child and we kick it up a
notch,” said Rowan Public Library’s Books-to-Grow Coordinator Suzanne Roakes. The focus is on teaching parents simple activities they can do with
their children while reading to
them that will help hold their
attention and interest. In one
workshop, presenters will read
about going on a bear hunt,
then show parents how to
make a bear puppet that children can then design and decorate. Singing songs and asking children to help imitate
funny sounds like snoring and
yawning are also fun ways to
keep children involved.
Each workshop also offers
parents ideas for talking with
their children about a book.
Examples include asking children what their favorite part
of the story is, asking them to
describe what they see on the
book cover before beginning
to read the story or preparing
“fun facts” to share about a story’s subject.
In each workshop, presenters will use a different book
to demonstrate some of these
teaching activities in action.
Parents then get a free copy of
the book, in addition to copies
of questions to ask, puppet pat-

terns, storytelling pieces (pictures from the book) and song
verses.
“Participants will be bringing everything home with
them,” Roakes said. “So it’s
easy to try out any new techniques they’ve learned almost
immediately.”
Any time you read to a
child, you’re teaching them
new skills. Classic children’s
stories like Eric Carle’s “The
Very Hungry Caterpillar” may
seem fairly simple on the surface, explains Jane Welch,
RPL’s Children’s Outreach
Program supervisor. But children listening to this story are
also learning to count, to identify the days of the week, to
recognize sequencing and to
follow the life cycle of a butterfly, and it’s all done in a fun
and interesting way.”
Using the added activities
that will be presented and modeled in each workshop, parents
can help children build and expand on the basic skills these
stories teach while further enhancing their reading experience.
Workshops are informal,
fun and interactive with numerous opportunities to try
the new activities being discussed. Door prizes will also
be given away. Please call your
local RPL branch or 704-2168234 for more information.
Child care is not provided.
Please make arrangements for
your children.
Workshop dates are:
• Monday, 5:30-6:30 p.m.,
Frank T. Tadlock South Rowan
Regional Library, China
Grove.
• Wednesday, 5:30-6:30
p.m., Rowan Public Library
Headquarters, Salisbury.
• Monday, June 28, 5:306:30 p.m., RPL Headquarters,
Salisbury
• Tuesday, June 29, 5:306:30 p.m., East Branch, Rockwell.
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Dad (Jerry Allen),
I thank God that I am so blessed to have you
as a father. Thank you for always believing in me
and never giving up on me. I also thank God for
your strong faith in Him. Your faith in God has
made it possible for you to forgive me when I
probably didn't deserve to be forgiven.

Happy Father's Day.
tions from those adopting
pets.
Want to view animals at
the shelter? Kennel hours
are from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Monday-Friday and from 8
to 11 a.m. Saturdays.
Office hours are from 11
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday and from 8 to 11:30 a.m.
Saturday.
To learn more about
adopting a pet, call the shelter at 704-216-7768, or visit
the shelter at 1465 Julian
Road, Salisbury. You can
also visit the shelter’s website at www.co.rowan.nc
.us/animalshelter/.

Happy Father's Day
to the best daddy in the
whole world!
ILove You All the Way to
HOLLYWOOD.

The Rowan County Animal Shelter has several animals waiting to be adopted
and taken to a good home.
Cat: She’s just as big in
real life as she looks in her
picture. This voluptuous
beauty came to the shelter as
a stray and her personality
is as big as her size. Longhaired, calico and demanding of attention, she’s a real
diva.
Dog: Could be a miniature
collie mix with a bit of
Pomeranian for good measure, we are unsure. What we
do know is that this female
stray is a approximately 4
months old and eager to find
someone to shower her with
affection.
From rescued animals to
those abandoned by owners
who couldn’t afford them,
and all others in between, the
Animal Shelter has them all.
Adoption fees are $70, a
down payment for spay/
neuter costs. The voucher
can be used at any veterinarian’s office.
Before adopting any animal, a person must agree to
take the pet to a veterinarian for an exam and
spaying/neutering. If the animal isn’t already vaccinated for rabies, the person
must agree to begin shots
within three business days.
Rabies shots can be given
as soon as the pet turns 4
months old.
The animal shelter isn’t
equipped with a medical facility, and cannot administer
any procedures or treatment.
A worker at the shelter
will go over all information
and gladly answer all ques-

Hood said he also gained
high admiration for Price
High School’s first principal,
L.H. Hall, a pioneer in public
education for black students
in Salisbury. He’s probably
the reason the alumni were
gathered at the school Saturday, and “I salute his memory,” Hood said.
The Rev. Mary Hardin said
Price High produced nationally known educators, such as
Elizabeth Duncan Koontz, a
U.S. ambassador in Rudolph
Aggrey, an important missionary in Janie Speaks, a federal judge in Donald Graham
and pro football players, doctors, lawyers, principals,
teachers, pastors, artists,
mayors, military officers and
men and women who broke
the color barriers in education, business, civic organizations and government.
“We are standing on good
ground,” Hardin said. Her
rousing talk, looking back on
the importance of Price High
School and all the people who
made it successful, ended
with a standing ovation.
Alumni from Price High
came from many different
parts of the country. The
unique National Alumni Association has chapters in Salisbury, Charlotte, Ohio, Atlanta
and Washington, D.C.
Ervin, who went on to
Benedict College on a football
scholarship and had a 34-year
career with the U.S. Postal
Service, now lives in Upper
Marlboro, Md.
Tommy L. Brown traveled
from Inglewood, Calif., for his
first Price High reunion this
year. A 1959 graduate, Brown
said he’ll always cherish the
education and guidance he received as a student at Price.
“We had some excellent
teachers,” Jacquelyn Fleming
Herndon, class of 1960,
agreed.
Brown went to New York
City for 20 years after Price
High, then moved to California, where he built a career
with the transit authority before retiring.
Herndon went on to N.C.
Central University, where she
graduated with degrees in
English and general science.
She taught school in Nash
County before she married,
then moved to Washington,,
D.C., and on to Atlanta, where
she had a career with Lincoln
Insurance.
Herndon said Price High
teachers cared deeply about
their students and knew how
to exert the right amount of
discipline toward getting
them to the next level of
achievement.
Howard E. Ormond, another member of the Class of
1960, said Price students participated in everything. He
played in the band, sang in the
chorus and belonged to the
football, basketball and track
teams. The school gave a
rounded education in academics, music and athletics, he
said.
Ormond went on to college
at Winston-Salem State University and retired as a public school principal after 44
years.
Doris Jones, who now lives
in Atlanta, attended Price
High as a student, then re-

SANDRA MCCOMBS

about the Juneteenth
Celebration

“The fact that we can all
come together for a positive
celebration, that’s a good
thing,” he said.
Salisbury High School
step group Pup Phi Pup, entertained the crowd, mixing
stepping, singing, acting and
acrobats into a crowd-pumping performance.
The organization is for
students who have a 2.5 GPA
or higher, and anyone can
join once they start the ninth
grade.
“It’s to educate young
African-American males,
and give them something to
stay out of trouble,” said Albert Shaver, leader of the
group.
Shaver said they wanted
to perform at Juneteenth to
encourage youth to play a
positive role in the community.

turned to teach seventh grade
and later was guidance counselor. She would go on to
teach at Livingstone College
and Winston-Salem State before building a career with
the Internal Revenue Service
in Atlanta, where she retired.
A 1949 Price High graduate, Jones remembers the
proms being held in the wide
hallways. “We thought we
were in heaven,” she said. She
described the teachers as caring and recalled how Scripture and prayer were built

into the school day.
“Our glee club was fantastic,” Jones said. “... Price was
an excellent school. They
(teachers) told us we were important and to reach for the
stars.”
Clara Rankin Rich, a 1951
graduate who lives in Washington, D.C., built a long career at the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
“I loved all the teachers,”
Rich said, “and their dedication to helping students be
someone.”

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“This is my first year
down here,” Allison said.
“We have Juneteenth in
Statesville, but we decided
to come to Salisbury. The
horse is my favorite thing
here so far.”
Sandra McCombs comes
out to Juneteenth every year,
and was accompanied by
friends Felisha Kesler, of
Salisbury, and Johnita
Prince, of Charlotte.
“I came out today to celebrate the freedom,” McCombs said. “We were set
free on the 19th of June. Today has been wonderful.”
“I came out to eat some
good food and listen to some
good music,” Kesler said.
Best friends Bridget Henderson and Margaret Kelly
came to the event for everything, they said.
“I came out for the gospel
music and a fish sandwich,
but most definitely the
gospel music,” Kelly said.
“All the people, all the
food, I just love it,” Henderson said. “I love the celebration itself.”
Raymond Brooks, this
year’s emcee, has participated in Juneteenth for five
years.

“It makes them (younger
kids) want to come and experience the same thing we’re
experiencing,” he said.
Talita McCain, with Salisbury Parks and Recreation,
coordinated games for the
children, and said the partnership with Juneteenth and
Salisbury Parks and Recreation is an “ongoing partnership.”
“The children need to
have the understanding of
the history,” she said. “Juneteenth is very family oriented, and an event where families can come together, enjoy good food, games and fellowship.”
Sponsors for the event include the city of Salisbury,
Coca-Cola Bottling, Enterprise Rent a Car, First Legacy Community Credit Union,
Food Lion, the Juneteenth
Committee, Novant Rowan
Regional Medical Center,
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U.S. Attorney General Ex-con mom beats odds, gets law degree
Holder speaks to N.C.
Advocates for Justice
better access to legal representation.
Holder said the keys to improving access are to include
all players in discussions
about how to improve access
and make the public more
aware of the problems some
people face when they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
get a lawyer.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shining a light on these
problems is important â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and
is often an impetus for reform,â&#x20AC;? Holder said.
He said lawyers took the
lead on getting changes made
in North Carolina after the
state auditor said three years
ago that the public defender
system was falling short of its
mission to provide adequate
legal defense.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also been calling
on state lawmakers to make
indigent defense services,
even in these hard economic
times, a funding priority,â&#x20AC;?
Holder said.

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2 men charged
in case of stolen
mobile home
ASHEVILLE (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Police
say two men have been
charged in connection with a
mobile home stolen from the
North Carolina mountains.
The Asheville Citizen Times
reported Saturday that 36year-old Franklin Edward Redmon Jr. of Leicester has been
charged with larceny. He remained in the Buncombe County jail Saturday. Jail records
did not indicate whether he has
an attorney.
He is accused of driving off
with a mobile home that was
sitting on a lot and selling it to
someone else who has been living in it.
Police charged 70-year-old
Lester Edward Stanley of
Leicester with possessing
stolen property. A telephone
listing for Stanley could not be
found Saturday. Stanley would
not comment about the case to
the newspaper on Friday.
Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unclear when the original owner will get her home
back.

The three and a fourth
person who was not injured
in the shooting met some other people in a restaurant
parking lot. Those people
tried to rob the foursome and
fired at them when they
tried to get away.

Eating contest
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Coney Island
FORT BRAGG (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Soldiers and shoppers get
the front-row seats for a pair
of competitive eating contests that qualifies the winners for an Independence
Day tradition on Coney Island.
Fort Bragg and the Concord Mills Mall held hot-dogeating contests Saturday.
The contests represent
some of the last chances to
qualify for the Super Bowl of
big eaters. The winners can
compete in the Nathanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Famous hot dog eating contest
in New York City on July 4th.

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Jason Kendall Chavis of Lumberton and 21-year-old Derrick
Scott Shea of Red Springs.
The sheriff said in a news release that 18-year-old Kiara
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State.
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died that fall , Burke fell
into a deep depression.
Overwhelmed by caring for
four preschoolers, she
called her husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother in Tennessee to send his
younger sister to help.
Instead, he and his drug
habit arrived. Before long,
Burke reverted to her old
habits, kiting checks, returning stolen items for
cash. Anything to make
ends meet. Until, in the end,
she got busted but good.

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WILMINGTON (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
The U.S. attorney general
spoke to a North Carolina trial lawyers group Saturday
about the importance of making sure poor people have access to legal representation.
U.S. Attorney Eric Holder
told members of the N.C. Advocates for Justice that the
stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overburdened public
defender system is just one of
many across the country with
similar funding and staffing
problems.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;In some parts of the country, the primary institutions
for the delivery of defense to
the poor â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m talking about
basic public defender systems
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; simply do not exist,â&#x20AC;? Holder said in prepared remarks.
Holder told the attorneys
about the Justice Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Access to Justice Initiative. The program was
launched in March with the
goal of giving all Americans

RALEIGH (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; In
February 1990, Lynn Burke
arrived at her public housing unit, escorted by a parole officer, to find her four
young children living in
squalor. Her crackhead husband had left pipes and needles in a back room. The
kitchen sink was so clogged
with grease, he did dishes
in the tub.
Broken and broke after
two years in prison, Burke
had little reason to be optimistic about her future.
Then her 7-year-old son
held out something in his
hand.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was thinking you
might need this,â&#x20AC;? he said.
For two years, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d slept
with Burkeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license under his pillow.
Burke realized in that
moment that her children
and others in her life believed in her against all
odds.
Their faith â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and
Burkeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own drive â&#x20AC;&#x201D; led
her on a odyssey from a
felony fraud conviction to
representing clients for the
Orange County Public Defenderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office.
Burke, 47, graduated last
month from N.C. Central
University Law School and
is studying for the bar exam
in July; she hopes to begin
criminal defense work in
the fall. Burke knows her
story is rare; she wishes it
werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cons are like everyone
else. We want to contribute.
We want our children to be
proud of us,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My
story shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be miraculous. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a regular person
who screwed up royally. If
I can do this, anyone can.â&#x20AC;?
Burke didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t grow up in
poverty. Her father was a
corporate lawyer, her mother, a nurse. It was an upper
middle-class upbringing in
upstate New York, then
Tennessee. Still, Burke
said, she never learned key
lessons about how much
things cost, about education, about personal responsibility.
At 18, she got pregnant
and couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bring herself
to give her son up for adop-

tion.
One night his father
dropped off checks heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d
stolen and told Burke if she
ever needed anything for
their son, she should just
write a check. She did â&#x20AC;&#x201D; until she got caught.
She was put on probation
at 19 while pregnant, by another man, with twin girls.
Within a year she had her
fourth baby and was sentenced for the first time.
She persuaded the father of
her three younger kids to
marry her so they wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
be sent to foster care.
Burke was still on probation when she moved to

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BY RUTH SHEEHAN

The News and Observer
of Raleigh

W O R L D / N AT I O N

SALISBURY POST

Obama: GOP
to blame for
woes of jobless
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack
Obama on Saturday pinned blame on Republicans for making life harder for the unemployed and for those who could lose their jobs
without new federal intervention. He did so
even as he sought to distance himself from
the “dreary and familiar politics” of Washington.
Capping a week in which the administration scored a victory — a $20 billion fund to
be paid by BP for the victims of the Gulf of
Mexico oil spill — Obama reserved his radio
and Internet address to focus on the work that
didn’t get done.
His main concern was the rejection of a
bill in the Senate that would have provided
more money for the long-term unemployed,
aid for strapped state governments and the
renewal of popular tax breaks for businesses and individuals.
“If this obstruction continues, unemployed
Americans will see their benefits stop,” Obama said. “Teachers and firefighters will lose
their jobs. Families will pay more for their
first home. All we ask for is a simple up or
down vote. That’s what the American people
deserve.”
The broad economic bill failed Thursday
when Democrats could not muster the 60
votes needed to end debate. The 56-40 vote
fell four shy of the total required to break the
GOP filibuster. Republicans support many of
the policies in the legislation but are demanding changes to shrink its toll on the deficit.

Latest video shows unarmed
Uzbeks trying to fend off rioters
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — A top U.S.
envoy called for an independent investigation
into the violence that has devastated southern Kyrgyzstan, as amateur video emerged
of unarmed Uzbeks gathering to defend their
town during the attacks.
Prosecutors charged Azimzhan Askarov,

risen sharply in Afghanistan over the last
three months, with roadside bombings, complex suicide attacks and assassinations soaring over last year’s levels.
The three-month report by U.N. SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon to the U.N. Security
Council appeared at odds with Pentagon assertions of slow but steady progress in
Afghanistan — an assessment that was challenged by U.S. lawmakers during recent hearings on Capitol Hill.
In the report, Ban said the overall security situation in Afghanistan has not improved
since his last report in March and instead the
number of violent incidents had “increased
significantly compared to previous years and
contrary to seasonal trends.”
The most “alarming trend” was a sharp rise
in the number of roadside bombings, which
soared 94 percent in the first four months of
this year compared with the same period in
2009, Ban said.
Moreover, assassinations of Afghan government officials jumped 45 percent, mostly
in the ethnic Pashtun south, he said. NATO

has launched a major operation to secure the
biggest southern city, Kandahar, the Taliban’s
spiritual birthplace.

Kagan unscathed by release of
documents; questions remain
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of thousands
of pages worth of documents from Elena Kagan’s past have left President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee relatively unscathed and important details about her still
a mystery heading into confirmation hearings
for a lifetime job as a justice.
Documents from Kagan’s service in the
Clinton White House, including her own emails as a policy aide and lawyer, reinforce
the portrait that’s emerged in recent weeks:
a politically savvy, sometimes hard-edged
strategist whose views of the Constitution are
at odds with those of conservatives.
There is scant evidence about what kind
of justice Kagan would be. Supporters suggest she can serve as a consensus-builder
among the divided nine-member court.

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the head of a prominent human rights group
who shot the video, with inciting ethnic hatred. Askarov had accused the military of
complicity in the rampages that sent hundreds
of thousands of Uzbeks fleeing for their lives.
Tursunbek Akun, the country’s rights ombudsman, insisted the charges against
Askarov were fabricated, and activists in
Bishkek demonstrated before U.N. offices to
demand his release.
Valentina Gritsenko, head of the Justice
rights organization, said she feared Askarov
was being tortured. He was detained with his
brother on Tuesday in his southern hometown
of Bazar-Korgon, colleagues told the Associated Press.
Entire Uzbek neighborhoods in southern
Kyrgyzstan have been reduced to ruins by
rampaging mobs of ethnic Kyrgyz who forced
nearly half of the region’s roughly 800,000
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sues. He characterizes himself as less confrontational
than Hall.
At Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s workshop on
the 2010-11 county budget,
Hall and Mitchell cast straw
votes together on most items,
including funding for two
Child Protective Services positions and two roofs for
Rowan-Cabarrus Community
College.
Mitchell also voted for
three funding increases that
Hall opposed â&#x20AC;&#x201D; money for
RowanWorks, the Rowan-Salisbury Chamber of Commerce
and Rufty-Holmes Senior Center.
Hall said she opposed the
RowanWorks increase because the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s administrative budget has
grown while its marketing
budget has scaled back. The
county and local families are
having to cut back in an economic downturn, she said, and
county-funded
agencies
should be doing the same.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;These tax dollars are not
my personal tax dollars,â&#x20AC;? Hall
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They belong to the people of Rowan County. Before
I cast a vote, I consider that
these dollars belong to them.â&#x20AC;?
Mitchell said he and Hall
differed on those three budget votes simply because he
was willing to invest money
that she was not. The programs he voted to fund,
Mitchell said, either would
provide a worthwhile return
to the county or continue programs that provide crucial
services.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some define fiscal conservatism as not spending money,â&#x20AC;? Mitchell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To me, fiscal conservatism is using the
money youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got at your discretion in the best way possible.â&#x20AC;?
Mitchell proposed a budget increase of $690,000 for
Rowan-Salisbury Schools â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
$190,000 to keep county funding steady in spite of decreased enrollment, and
$500,000 to continue to pay for
positions with state-mandated
benefit increases.
Both Hall and Mitchell emphasize the county cannot
make up for funding cuts
from the state or meet the
schoolsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; $3.1 million request
halfway, but Mitchell says he
doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to do anything
to contribute to the schoolsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
losses.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;My position is the county
should not cut schools,â&#x20AC;? he
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At first, that looked like
$190,000, which was direct
money we were cutting ... but
we were going to get $500,000
less value for the money that
we were putting in.â&#x20AC;?
Hall supported an increase
of $190,000, which is included
in the budget commissioners
will vote on Monday. Hall says
that while the school systemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
needs are great, the county
had other urgent needs to worry about as well. She says she
doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to put the county in a position where it will
have to make severe cuts or
increase taxes next year.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The school system has a
fund balance of $6 million,â&#x20AC;?

2009, while Hall opposed both.
They havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always disagreed. Both Hall and
Mitchell supported incentives
for a company that pledged to
build a wind tunnel for testing
cars in the Toyota business
park, but that project did not
come to fruition.
They also agreed on other
issues, including support of a
land-use planning process in
2007; stripping the private
Rowan Jobs Initiative of county funds in 2008 after its board
began paying a company
owned by one of its own members for marketing; and asking the Rowan-Kannapolis
ABC System board to seek an
efficiency study after questions arose about profits and
spending.
But during this monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
candidate forum, Hall mentioned that during the last
county revaluation, she supported a revenue-neutral tax
rate and Mitchell did not.
Neither candidate is in favor of raising property taxes,
but Mitchell said he and Hall
define â&#x20AC;&#x153;revenue-neutralâ&#x20AC;? a bit
differently. Mitchell said he
includes increases in revenue
due to development and
growth during non-revaluation years.
Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also parted ways
on other issues over the years,
including:
â&#x20AC;˘ In 2007, commissioners
voted to ban alcohol at county-owned sites, then discovered the county was under
contract for one more Smoke

Out biker event at the fairgrounds, which included alcohol sales. On a 3-2 vote after
assurances the county would
be insured against any
mishaps at the event, Mitchell
was in the majority in allowing Smoke Out to go on with
alcohol sales.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Banning the issue this
year, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not solving the
world, the nation or the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ills,â&#x20AC;? he said.
Hall opposed it, saying,
â&#x20AC;&#x153;there can never be enough insurance to cover up for bad
policy.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;˘ Also in 2007, Hall voted
in the minority against paying
$1.5 million for 35 acres on
China Grove Road for a future
school, calling it â&#x20AC;&#x153;land speculationâ&#x20AC;? and saying the money
could be better spent on other school needs, such as technology or programs to improve student performance.
Persuaded buying the land
was the best use of tax dollars
at the time, Mitchell voted in
favor of the purchase.
â&#x20AC;˘ In 2009, Hall moved to
seek the resignations of all
three Rowan-Kannapolis ABC
System board members after
concerns arose about the lack
of profits, the boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reluctance to refusal to provide
public records and auditorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
questions about deficiencies
in financial accounting.
Mitchell was part of the majority that opposed asking for
the resignations.
In addition to the county
commissioner race, Republi-

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will see an election between
U.S. House candidates Scott
Cumbie of Winston-Salem and
Greg Dority of Washington,
N.C. The winner of the second
primary will face off against
U.S. Rep. Mel Watt in the Nov.
2 general election.
The sole race on the Democratic ballot for the second
primary will be between U.S.
Senate candidates Cal Cunningham of Lexington and
Secretary of State Elaine Marshall of Raleigh. The two are
running for the chance to oppose U.S. Sen. Richard Burr
in the fall.
In the 8th U.S. House Dis-

trict, which includes Cabarrus
County, Republicans Harold
Johnson and Tim Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Annunzio
face off for the chance to run
against Democratic incumbent Larry Kissell.
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Hall said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The superintendent and her board can fund
this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needs if they need
to. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to have to be
her decision.â&#x20AC;?
Hall has been somewhat
less inclined to vote for tax incentives for businesses than
Mitchell. She says she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
think they should be given to
every new or expanding business that seeks them.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I look at incentives as they
come individually,â&#x20AC;? Hall said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;If they bring a significant
number of jobs to Rowan
County, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very open to it.â&#x20AC;?
If she isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t convinced of the
businessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; potential benefit to
the county, she does not vote
to give incentives. That tax
money is needed to fund county programs and services, she
said, and it shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be given
back to whoever wants it.
Mitchell also said he carefully considers each incentive
request and the benefits to
Rowan County citizens. He
said he is inclined to vote for
them if they fall in line with
the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s written incentive
program.
Mitchell doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like giving
tax incentives to businesses,
he said, but Rowan County
needs to stay competitive with
surrounding counties and
states.
Incentives are â&#x20AC;&#x153;part of the
business recruitment game,â&#x20AC;?
Mitchell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to
make sure that we continue
our efforts to get more jobs in
Rowan County.â&#x20AC;?
One disagreement came
over incentives for Toyota
Racing Developmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan to
build a $22 million facility on
Peach Orchard Road. The
commissioners approved a
deal by a 3-2 vote in 2007 to rebate 75 percent of the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s property tax for five
years.
Hall, who opposed the incentives said the county was
banking on the hope that Toyota would stay, expand its investment and attract more
spinoff businesses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hope is
not a good business strategy,â&#x20AC;?
she said.
Mitchell, who voted in favor of the package, said at the
time the county hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been
able to land a â&#x20AC;&#x153;big fishâ&#x20AC;? in several years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If not a big fish,
itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the sighting of a whale,â&#x20AC;?
he said of Toyota Racing Development, which did follow
through on its plans.
Mitchell also supported
record-setting
incentive
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cided to actively undermine
the candidacy of Tim Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Annunzio. His anti-government
tirades sprinkled with religious language has the GOP
worried whether heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be a liability in the fall against Democratic Rep. Larry Kissell.
Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Annunzio, who has
vowed to work to dismantle
entire branches of federal
government, faces former
Charlotte television sportscaster Harold Johnson. Republican Party leaders have
lined up behind Johnson.
GOP and unaffiliated voters in the Piedmont also will
choose nominees to challenge
veteran Democratic Reps.
Mel Watt in the 12th District
and Brad Miller in the 13th
District. Cumberland County
voters also decide the Democratic nominee for a state Senate seat.
Runoff turnouts have
ranged from 2 percent to 8
percent of the eligible voters
in the partiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; primary in recent years, state elections director Gary Bartlett said.
Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s election should fall
at the low end of the range,
Bartlett said.
The 2008 runoff turnout
was only 1.8 percent of the eligible registered voters cast
ballots, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when the top
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In 1865, General George
Stoneman crossed the bridge
with his Union soldiers, entering Salisbury during the Civil War. But, he said, the city’s
consultant said the bridge
wasn’t historically significant.
“In 1993, a consultant was
hired by the city, and said the
bridge was not historic,”
Bergstone said. Bergstone
noted the bridge was placed
on the National Register of
Historic Places in 1995 and
designated locally in 1997. In
1999, the bridge was placed on
the federal register of national historic places.
“This has always been a
significant part of the neighborhood,” he said. “This is the
only overpass that was built
over the Western North Carolina Railroad in the area. The
bridge can be rehabilitated
without losing its (historic)
status.”
Thomson showed a Salisbury Post photograph from
Aug. 29, 1962. It captured one
of the most significant historical events in Salisbury,
Thomson said, when four children, Richard, Hodge, Ida and
Anita Taylor, crossed the
bridge with their mother, and
became the first black children enrolled in the formerly
all-white Frank B. John Elementary School.
“It was five years before
the integration of the high
school,” Thomson said, noting
Richard was the first black
student to graduate from high
school in Rowan County.
“This dramatic image of
the historic walk over the
bridge documents an event
that should not be overlooked,
but a cause for celebration,”
he said.
Fischetti presented the
council his 2006 inspection of
the bridge, along with photos
and plans of rehabilitating it
to make it safe for emergency
vehicles. Fischetti was hired
by the Historic Salisbury
Foundation in 2006 in reaction
to a city study.
“The abutments appear to
be in fairly good condition,
and the cross section of the
bridge to an engineer makes
a lot of sense,” he said. “It provides a lot of collateral stability.
“In our opinion, the bridge
can be made safe, and can be
upgraded and made safe for
city services.”
Fischetti said he could use
resistance drilling, digital radiography and remote visual
inspection to determine how
much decay is in each timber.
“I would feel very safe in
saying that this bridge can be
rehabilitated,” he said.
Currin, a partner with
Raleigh firm Poyner and
Spruill, said the Historic Salisbury Foundation has a
strong case. Her firm has experience with preservation issues, Thomson said.
Currin claimed that the
city’s study, done by engineering and consulting firm URS,
was incomplete, and that since
the bridge was on the National Register of Historic Places,
certain guidelines would have
to be met before an order to
tear it down was made.
“With respect to 4F (in the
Federal Department of Transportation Act of 1966), it is my
client’s position that the 4F determination was not complete
in this case,” Currin said. The
act forces planners to develop projects that preserve historic resources.
“The foundation would pursue all their available legal
remedies to make sure they
pursue all available options
for preserving the bridge,”
she said.
Currin said there were numerous cases in federal
courts where groups like the
Historic Salisbury Foundation claim a city did not explore all options to preserve
a historic structure, “and
they are willing to do so in
this case,” Currin said.
“It is the national policy
pursuant to the U.S. code that
specific effort be made to
protect historic sites and
buildings,” she said. “The
URS study tries to come upon
a sufficiency and load rating.
Mr. Fischetti’s plan showed
you would be able to meet
these ratings.
“We also believe there are
other ones that could be a sort
of mix with the URS study
and Mr. Fischetti’s study.
“This rehabilitation can be
done in accordance with
sound engineering principles.”
Salisbury Mayor Susan
Kluttz thanked the Historic
Salisbury Foundation for its
“excellent, precise presentation,” and said it was exciting

Margaret Phelps Lowder

ALBEMARLE — Margaret
Phelps Lowder, of Albemarle,
passed away early Friday
Morning, June 18, 2010.
Born
on
New
Year's
Day, she was
the daughter
of
James
Solomon
Phelps, Sr. and
Ruth McKinnie
Phelps.
Margaret grew up in Clemmons,
attended Forsyth
County Schools, graduated
from High Point University,
and attended Bowman Gray
School of Medicine at Wake
Forest University. For over
45 years, Margaret worked as
a Medical Technician at Stanly Regional Medical Center.
She was a member of First
Street
United
Methodist
Church in Albemarle, former
Sunday School Teacher, and
member of the UMW. She
was also a founding member
of the ARC of Stanly County.
She was a loving and caring
wife, mother, and sister, and
truly cherished the time spent
with her grandchildren.
In addition to her parents,
Margaret was preceded in
death by her devoted husband
of 53 years, Dwight E. Lowder, Sr., who died July 27,
2009, and her brother Dr.
James Soloman Phelps, Jr.
Survivors include daughters Becky L. Peeler and husband Kelly of Granite Quarry
and Nash L. Shaver and husband Tony of Rockwell; son
Dwight E. "Skipper" Lowder,
Jr. of Albemarle; and grandchildren Katie, Mandy, and
Will Peeler and Ryan and
Drew Shaver.
Visitation: 9:30-10:45 a.m.
Monday, June 21, 2010 in the
First Street United Methodist
Church Parlor.
Service: 11 a.m. Monday,
June 21, 2010 at First Street
United Methodist Church,
Albemarle, conducted by Rev.
Virginia Herron, pastor.
Burial will be at Fairview
Memorial Park, Albemarle
following the funeral service.
Memorials: May be made
to Hospice of Stanly County,
960 N. First St., Albemarle,
NC 28001; or First Street
United Methodist Church, 509
N. First St., Albemarle, NC
28001.
Powles Funeral Home of
Rockwell is assisting the Lowder family.
Online condolences may be
made to www.powlesfuneralhome.com.

Charles Alexander, Sr.

CONCORD — Charles 'C.J.'
Alexander, Sr., age 84, passed
on Friday, June 18, 2010, at
CMC-Northeast Medical Center, Concord. Arrangements
are incomplete and will be announced at a later date by
Kelsey Funeral Home, Inc.,
Concord.

Addie Mae Robinson

SALISBURY — Apostle
Addie Mae Allen Robinson,
age 53, passed on Friday,
June 18, 2010, at Resurrection
Medical Center in Chicago,
Ill. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced at
a later date by Noble and
Kelsey Funeral Home, Inc.

Walter Ray Freeze

CHINA GROVE — Walter
Ray Freeze, 91, of China
Grove, passed on Saturday
June 19, 2010, at CMC Northeast Medical
Center.
Born April
15, 1919, in
Rowan County, he was the
son of the late
Jason
Leslie
Freeze
and
Mary Evelyn
Kimball
Freeze.
Mr. Freeze
was educated
at Deaton School, and was
Maintenance Supervisor of
carpentry for Cannon Mills.
He served on the Honor
Guard of the American Legion, was a U.S. Army veteran
of WWII where he received
the Purple Heart. He was
also a member of Mt. Zion
United Church of Christ, song
leader of the men's Sunday
school class, and served on
the Consistory and played in
the local blue grass band.
Survivors include his wife
of 70 years, Mary Sechler
Freeze of China Grove. They
were married Oct. 27, 1939;
one son, Jerry Freeze and
wife Donna of China Grove;
two daughters, Shelia Nance
and husband Ron, and Wanda
Corriher and husband Frank
of China Grove; one brother,
Jason Eugene Freeze of Salisbury; four sisters, Hazel Menius and Betty Sides of Salisbury, Frances Holshouser of
China Grove, and Ruth Greason of Concord; six grandchildren; and 3 great-grandchildren.
Visitation & Services: Visitation is 1:30-3 p.m., Monday
with service to begin at 3 p.m.
at Mt. Zion United Church of
Christ. Burial to follow at
Greenlawn Cemetery.
Memorials: May be made
to Mt. Zion United Church of
Christ P.O. Box 1208, China
Grove, NC 28023.
Linn Honeycutt Funeral
Home in China Grove is serving the family

EAST SPENCER — Mrs.
Bessie Stamper Johnson, 75,
of East Spencer, passed away
Thursday, June 17, 2010, at
Rowan
Regional Medical
Center.
Mrs. Johnson was born
Dec. 4, 1934, in
Anson County
to the late
Georgia Lee
Shue Stamper and Marshall
Brance Stamper. She worked
as a waitress for many years,
at the Howard Johnson and
Jasmines at the Holiday Inn,
both in Salisbury. She was of
the Methodist faith, and was a
loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
Mrs. Johnson is survived
by her husband of 57 years,
Thomas James Johnson, Jr.;
son, Michael James Johnson
of Salisbury; sister, Priscilla
Stamper Propst and husband
Wayne of China Grove;
granddaughter, Crystal Lynn
Johnson of Salisbury; and
great-granddaughter, Aryana
Rachette Buis.
Service: A graveside service will be conducted 4 p.m.
Monday at Rowan Memorial
Park with the Rev. Jerry
Snipes officiating.
Visitation: The family will
receive friends from 3-4p.m.
Monday at the Summersett
Funeral Home.
Summersett
Funeral
Home is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences
may be made at www.summersettfuneralhome.com

- Army Sgt. 1st Class Robert J.
Fike, 38, of Conneautville, Pa.; and
- Army Staff Sgt. Bryan A. Hoover,
29, of West Elizabeth, Pa., died June 11
at Forward Operating Base Bullard,
Afghanistan, from wounds sustained
when insurgents attacked their unit
using an improvised explosive device.
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- Army Sgt. Israel P. Obryan, 24, of
Newbern, Tenn., and
- Army Spc. William C. Yauch, 23,
of Batesville, Ark., died June 11 in
Jalula, Iraq, of wounds suffered when
insurgents attacked their unit with a
vehicle-borne improvised explosive
device.
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- Army Spc. Christian M. Adams,
26, of Sierra Vista, Ariz., died June 11
in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of wounds
sustained from a non-combat related
incident.
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- Army Sgt. Mario Rodriguez, 24, of
Smithville, Texas, died June 11 in
Powrak, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when insurgents attacked his
unit using small arms and rocket-propelled grenade fires.
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- Army Spc. Brian M. Anderson, 24,
of Harrisonburg, Va., died June 12 in
Za Khel, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when insurgents attacked his
vehicle using an improvised explosive
device.
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- Army Spc. Christopher W. Opat,
29, of Spencer, Iowa, died June 15 in
Baquah, Iraq of injuries sustained
from a non-combat related incident.
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- Army Sgt. Joshua A. Lukeala, 23,
of Yigo, Guam; and
- Army Spc. Matthew R. Catlett, 23,
of Houston, Texas; and
- Army Spc. Charles S. Jirtle, 29, of
Lawton, Okla.; and
- Army Spc. Blaine E. Redding, 22,
of Plattsmouth, Neb., died of wounds
suffered when enemy forces attacked
their vehicle with an improvised explosive device June 7 in Konar,
Afghanistan.

to see the support from the
community.
Kluttz reflected on her
time in elementary school at
Frank B. John, remembering
that the bridge was her way
home. She also spoke about
moving back to Ellis Street
as an adult, “strolling my babies over the bridge to the
neighborhood grocery store.”
“Please understand that
we as a council all understand the historic significance of this,” she said. “But
we also are unable to make a
commitment to you.
“This bridge is not a building, it’s part of our transportation system in the city.
We have a responsibility to
our citizens that it’s safe, and
fire and ambulances are able
to reach them safely.”
Kluttz promised the council will make “the very best
decision” the members can,
and she said the bridge committee will look at each possibility before reporting back
to the council. She also noted
that the city was waiting to
hear back from the railroad
to begin any decision making.
James Carley, a civil engineer and resident of Salisbury for the past 30 years,
addressed the council during
the public hearing.
“I’ve had the opportunity
as a civil engineer to go over
the proposal from Jeffrey
Koontz from URS, and hear
David Fischetti’s today,” he
said. “Between the two proposals we have, we can rehabilitate the bridge and make
it safe for emergency vehicles.”
He also said the city has
poorly maintained the bridge
over the years, and inconvenienced residents during the
bridge’s repairs for too long.
“I’ve seen untreated lumber used for repair of the
railings,” he said, noting that
the bridge was originally
painted white, and has not
been white in the 30 years
he’s lived in Salisbury.
“We shut this down in December for six months and
put it back in business in five
days,” he said. “I think it’s
ridiculous.”
After Tuesday’s meeting,
Thomson said the foundation
had two major points for rehabbing the bridge: the
bridge’s history and the legal
issues.
“Stoneman entering the
city, that in and of itself is
reason for further investigation,” he said. “This bridge is
one of Salisbury’s most historic sites, and the 1962 photo documents that history.
“As this issue with the
bridge gets flushed out even
more, it seems to become
more and more about the
people. It’s a physical connection.
“The history of the bridge
should not be minimized, and
we feel it has been downplayed by some.”
The legal aspects, Thomson said, revolve around the
protections that the bridge is
afforded.
“And the fact that the city
is in the driver’s seat has to
be emphasized,” he said. “In
retaining Poyner and Spruill,
we recognize there are legal
issues that can work toward
preserving the resource. If
there are feasible and prudent alternatives (to tearing
down the bridge), then
they’ve (the city) got to follow it.”
Thomson said the most
beneficial piece to hiring the
firm was that it proved the
railroad had no ultimate say
in the future of the bridge.
“So,” Thomson said, “let’s
move on, rehabilitate this historical resource, make it
safe, and let’s save its history. It’s obvious that there’s
public support.”

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BOSTON (AP) — An undocumented Harvard University student is no longer
facing deportation to Mexico
after being detained nearly
two weeks ago by immigration authorities at a Texas
airport, officials said.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said they
would not pursue the deportation of Eric Balderas. The
19-year-old was detained in
June after he tried to use a
university ID card to board
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Haley and Jindal “were really ambitious about their politics, and they could not do it
being Hindu or their old reli-

gion,” Pradhan said. “I do
think it was a political move.
They felt that not being a
Christian would hurt them.”

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Meet Reshma, Surya, Manan, Raj, Ami, Ravi, Nimrata
and Kamala — a new wave of
Indian-American politicians.
At least eight children of
Indian immigrants are running for Congress or
statewide office, the most
ever. The star of this trend is
Nikki Haley, born Nimrata
Nikki Randhawa, who is favored to win the election for
governor of
South Carolina.
Indian
heritage is
where Haley’s similarity with the
other candidates seems
HALEY
to end. She is
the only Republican, the
only one who has been widely mistaken for a white
woman, the only one who has
been accused of abandoning
her heritage for converting
from the Sikh faith to Christianity.
Yet when Haley’s motives
are questioned and some suggest Indians must become
less “foreign” to get elected,
many of these new candidates
are quick to ask: Who are we
to judge the mashup of American ambition with an ancient
culture?
Manan Trivedi, a doctor
and Iraq war veteran who recently won a Democratic primary for Congress in eastern
Pennsylvania, said he did not
view his ethnicity as a handicap: “The American electorate is smarter than that.”
He called criticism of Haley’s name and religion unfounded. “Nikki Haley and
(Republican Louisiana Gov.)
Bobby Jindal are on the
wrong side, but they worked
their butts off, they had the
bonafides to get the votes,
and I think it had so much
more to do with their work
ethic than the fact that they
may have changed their
names and adopted a different religion.”
Jindal was elected the nation’s first Indian governor in
2007, at age 36. Named Piyush
at birth, he told his Hindu parents when he was 4 that he
wanted to be called Bobby,
like the “Brady Bunch” boy.
He converted to Catholicism
as a teenager.
As Jindal’s star rose, the
meaning of his assimilation
drew much scrutiny. Many
people outside South Carolina only learned Haley is Indian after a fellow South Carolina lawmaker used a racial
epithet to describe her. Now
her choice of names, marriage to a white man and
Methodist conversion is rais-

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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Forget fist
pumps. When Tiger Woods watched his putt
on No. 17 roll in — a putt he later admitted
was “a joke” — he raised his right arm and
extended his index finger high in the air.
No. 1.
Who knows? Maybe he can still get there
this week after a remarkable round of U.S.
Open golf Saturday at Pebble Beach.
Woods shot 5-under 31 on the back nine to
post a 5-under 66 for the day and vault from
also-ran to big-time contender. He was at
1-under 212 for the tournament, alone in third
place, five shots behind leader Dustin
Johnson with only one player, Graeme
McDowell, in between.
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Tiger Woods watches his approach shot on the 18th hole at Pebble Beach.

Johnson
endures
‘slump’

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. —
Dustin Johnson plays his best
at Pebble Beach no matter
what month, no matter what
stage.
Hours after Tiger Woods
came to life in the U.S. Open
with his best round of the
year, Johnson turned in a
prime-time performance
every bit as good Saturday.
Johnson, the two-time defending champion in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am,
overpowered the course and
birdied his last two holes, hitting 6-iron onto the green
from the rough on the par-5
18th for a 5-under 66 and a
three-shot lead over Graeme
McDowell.

“If I keep hitting like I’ve
been hitting and putting it in
the spots on the green, then
I’m going to be tough to beat,”
said Johnson, who was at
6-under 207.

See JOHNSON, 6B

Brown
living
dream

Associated Press

See JOHNSON, 3B

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Dustin Johnson leads by three
shots after a third-round 66.

LOCAL BASEBALL

BY JENNA FRYER
SONOMA, Calif. — Jimmie
Johnson hasn’t been to Victory Lane in 10 races, his longest
drought in two years.
NASCAR’s four-time defending champion has finished outside the top 10 in five
of the last
seven races
and dropped
to seventh in
the
Sprint
Cup Series
standings.
And now
he’s at Infineon RaceJOHNSON
way, one of
just
five
tracks where he’s never won
a Cup race. It’s not that being
in wine country poses a problem. Johnson’s just not that
good at road course racing.
“Everybody knows how
much I have focused on it and
how badly I want to win on a
road course, especially here,”
said Johnson, a Californian.
“It’s time.”
Johnson has progressively
gotten better at Infineon,
where he’s cracked the top
five just twice and has averaged a 17th-place finish in
eight career starts. He was a
career-best fourth last year
but didn’t carry that improvement into Watkins Glen, the
only other road course in the
series, where he finished 12th
last August.
But after qualifying second
for today’s race — he briefly
held the pole until he was
bumped by defending winner
Kasey Kahne — Johnson believes he’s got a chance at winning on a road course.
“I feel really good about it,”
said Johnson, who has run two
Grand-Am events this year
for more practice. “We’ve
been testing and doing everything I can to be a better road
course driver and to get our
cars better. So we’ll see what
happens.”
His lack of success in Sonoma became a topic of conversation this weekend, even as
Johnson keeps ducking the assertion he’s in some sort of
slump. He’s scoffed at that notion for weeks — even though
he had three finishes of 31st
or worse last month.
But he’s clearly aware of
the perception. He joked that
“everybody keeps saying I’m
in a slump” when presented
with his trophy for being the
first quarter winner in Driver
Of The Year voting. Johnson
was honored for winning
three of the first five races
this season, a span dating to
Bristol in March.
“I get accused of being a little intense at times, so I’m trying to make sure to laugh a little bit,” he said, referring to
his slump reference. “There
is no doubt that the month of
May was tough on us. I made
mistakes.

KANNAPOLIS
—
K a n napolis
Rowan
11 did its part
Kannapolis 4 to keep the
R o w a n
County American Legion
baseball team on a roll.
Post 115 paraded seven
pitchers to the mound Saturday night — with little success. Rowan packaged 13 hits
with nine walks and six hit
batsmen in an 11-4 victory at
Fieldcrest Cannon Stadium.
“You can’t give a team like
that extra outs,” Kannapolis
coach Matt Stack said. “We
didn’t kick the ball around, but
we gave them all those extra

baserunners. They’re just like
extra outs. Walks were the
difference tonight, hands
down.”
Rowan (14-7, 8-4) earned its
seventh straight win and ninth
in the past 10 games. This was
the fifth consecutive game its
high-octane offense has
cracked double figures.
“I thought we had some
key hits,” said Rowan coach
Jim Gantt. “But we got some
walks in between that. If you
walk people, some of them are
gonna score. That’s the way it
goes.”
Rowan infielder Hayden
Untz drew four walks, boosting his season total to 25.

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Rowan’s Hayden Untz sprints to third base.

It was 106 degrees in
Phoenix on Saturday, but
Zachary “Rudy” Brown wasn’t complaining.
Brown was in Arizona
wearing a baseball uniform,
and being a pro ballplayer is
what he’s wanted to be as far
back as he can remember.
“Oh, my gosh, it’s what
I’ve been
working toward since I
was a little
kid,” the
2006 South
Rowan graduate said. “I
was always
telling my
Pops (Ray)
BROWN
that I was
gonna be a
pro. So this is a dream come
true to me. Now I’ve got my
foot in the door, and I look at
it as the opportunity of a
lifetime.”
How long Brown remains
a professional player is now
up to him and the Kansas
City Royals.
The Royals signed the
6-foot-5, 245-pound lefty
Thursday, one day after
they watched him throw in
relief in the M.I.N.K.
(Missouri-Iowa-NebraskaKansas) League. The signing was the perfect 22nd
birthday present for
Brown.
Brown sat through 50
rounds of the recent MLB
draft without hearing his
name called. He’d received
no assurances he’d be selected, but enough teams had
scouted him that he knew he
had a shot.
“Going into it, I thought
there was a pretty good
chance that I’d get picked
in the late rounds, but it
just didn’t happen,” Brown
said.

See BROWN, 3B

First-place South outslugs visiting Wilkes Co.
BY MIKE LONDON

mlondon@salisburypost.com

LANDIS — South Rowan fans resisted the urge to
S. Rowan 21 charge the field
Wilkes Co. 10 a n d h u g A l e x
I n gold, who threw
the last pitch, or third baseman Cory
Deason, who fielded a groundball
and fired it across the diamond to
first baseman Bubba McLaughlin for
the final out.

Ingold, Deason
and McLaughlin
enabled South to finish off a 21-10 victory against Wilkes
County by the 10-run
rule. Drained fans
got to go home after
seven innings and beDEASON
fore 10 p.m.
South starting
pitcher Dylan Walker left the mound
with an inflated ERA and a dented

cap from a line drive
that nearly ripped off
an ear — but he also
exited with a 4-0
record.
“The first time
through their lineup
my changeup was
working
great,”
Walker said. “Then WALKER
I’m not sure what
happened, but it was like night and
day. They got a few bloopers to fall

and I lost my composure a little bit.
That wasn’t good because that team
can mash.”
Homer-happy South (13-2, 8-1) can
also mash. It drilled four long ones
over the left-field porch Saturday.
South has blasted 24 homers this
summer, including 16 in a home park
friendly to right-handed hitters.
Gunnar Hogan hit a three-run
missile that was really stung,

The New Balance Nationals
concluded Saturday at North Carolina A&T in Greensboro.
North Rowan’s Teaunna Cuthbertson finished 24th in the long
jump with a top effort of 17 feet,
2 inches. A’Lexus Brannon (20-1⁄4)
won the event.
Salisbury’s Meloney Ramos
had the 26th-fastest time in the
400 hurdles (1:04.01), and West
Rowan’s Amber Holloway was
next at 1:04.43. Kendell Williams
(59.01) took first place.
In the emerging elite division,
North’s 4x100 team of Cuthbertson, Timesheia Allen, Tianca
White and Christen Jones finished fifth with a time of 49.70.

 Local golf
Forty-six players vied for 31
spots in qualifying for the 8th Annual Rowan Masters.
A pair of 5-under 66s by fourtime champion Keith Dorsett and
newcomer Kevin Lentz paced a
strong field. Next were Ken
Clarke (69) and Salisbury high
school teammates Alex Nianouris
(70) and Alex Lee (71).
Lentz won medalist honors in
a sudden-death playoff with a
birdie on the first extra hole.
The cut off to make it to next
weekend’s match play was 82.

First-round matches will be
played Friday, with quarterfinals
on Saturday and the semifinals
and final on Sunday. Ronnie Eidson is the defending champion.
Pairings in Monday’s edition.
 Salisbury’s Frank Adams III
made a hole-in-one on Saturday
on his way to a 2-under-par 70 in
the third round of the Moroccan
Golf Classic.
Adams aced the short, 108yard No. 7 hole with a sand
wedge. It was his third hole-inone in tournament competition.
Adams shot 71-74-145 through
36 holes to make the cut in the European Challenge Tour event. He
is tied for 32nd going into today’s
final round.
 Former Nationwide Tour
player Tommy Biershenk (Boiling Springs) had a final-round 62
to win the eGolf Tour’s Bolle
Classic at the Country Club of
Salisbury. Third-round leader
Drew Weaver (High Point) finished one shot back.
Biershenk’s 26-under 258 total set a 72-hole scoring record
for the tour. Biershenk was
forced to make a 5-foot birdie
putt on the 72nd hole for the win
after Weaver birdied the last five
holes to apply pressure.

dress won the boys 10s and
Knox’s Kayla Honeycutt won the
girls 12s in the Salisbury Parks
and Recreation/Kiwanis USTA
tennis tournament.
Anna Flynn lost in the championship match of the girls 14s.
Flynn and Madeline Hoskins lost
in the girls 14 doubles match.
Katelyn Storey and Hoskins
are playing in the girls 16s semifinals this morning at City Park.

 American Legion
Mooresville trailed early by
seven runs and trailed 11-7 in the
ninth but rallied to beat Lexington 12-11 on Saturday.
Lexington hit five homers, including two by Brandon Smith.
Kyle Altizer was the winner in
relief of Scottie Williams.
Jake Beaver went 3-for-4 for
the Moors and produced the
game-winning hit. Tyler Lewis
homered and went 3-for-5.

 All-State baseball

South Rowan shortstop Maverick Miles, East Rowan pitcher
Will Johnson and East third baseman Noah Holmes were named
to the NCPiedmontSports.com
All-State first team.
East pitchers Thomas Allen
 Kiwanis tennis
and Parker Gobbel made the secSacred Heart’s Michael Chil- ond team.

Algeria next for United States
BY RONALD BLUM
Associated Press

IRENE, South Africa — The
pattern is hard to miss: The United States falls behind by a goal or
two, then tries to scramble back.
So U.S. coach Bob Bradley
gathered his players together Friday night — after the thrilling
comeback and disallowed goal —
and reminded them about Father’s Day in Rustenburg last
year, when he spoke to his team
after opening losses to Italy and
Brazil in the Confederations Cup.
They responded by routing
Egypt 3-0 and didn’t stop there.
The U.S. went on to upset European champion Spain and advanced to the final against Brazil,
where the Americans took a twogoal lead before losing.
“Whether you are a father or
you’re thinking about your own
father, we all shake each other’s
hand and give each other a hug
and it’s a happy Father’s Day
deal,” he said Saturday. “That
turned the tide. So maybe that
will do it this time around, too.”
In a tournament dominated by
mostly dull matches, the U.S. has
survived two edge-of-your-seat
games. But time is running out.
The Americans played to a 11 tie with England, a controver-

sial goal was nixed and gave them
with a 2-2 tie against Slovenia and
now comes Algeria on Wednesday. The U.S. can guarantee a
berth in the second round with a
win. If it ties, it would advance
only if England loses to the
Slovenes or the English tie and
don’t overcome the U.S. advantage in goals, currently 3-1.
“I think going into that final
game we have to go in believing
we’re going to get out of the
group, because that’s the only
way to think,” defender Jay DeMerit said. “Is that going to happen? We’ll find out.”
After being eliminated in the
first-round at the 2006 tournament
in Germany, the U.S. had high
hopes coming into this World Cup,
especially with Landon Donovan,
Clint Dempsey and Tim Howard
in the prime of their careers.
While the offense has produced goals, the defense has been
shaky. England and Slovenia exploited gaps between the midfield and defense, and DeMerit
and Oguchi Onyewu have been
slow to react at times. As a result,
the opposition had space that allowed it to split the back line. In
eight of the last 12 qualifiers and
World Cup matches combined,
the U.S. has allowed the first goal.
“It’s not like we sit and say to

ourselves, ‘All right, let’s wait until we go down 1-0, 2-0,’ ” said
Michael Bradley, the coach’s son.
“You play at the highest level, you
can’t give away goals like that.”
Donovan said players had only
themselves to blame for the goals
by Slovenia.
“We started the match poorly.
We were tentative. I think we sat
too deep, which caused us problems,” he said.
Bob Bradley has some big decisions to make for the Algeria
match. With Robbie Findley suspended after getting two yellow
cards, the coach likely will pair
either Edson Buddle with Jozy
Altidore at forward or push up
Dempsey from midfield to forward — a move that could allow
him to start Stuart Holden.
Maurice Edu, who came in for
Jose Torres at halftime against
the Slovenes, could be considered
for a start alongside Michael
Bradley in the central midfield.
The Desert Foxes, with speedy
outside backs, reached the World
Cup by beating African champion Egypt in a contentious playoff.
“Algeria is a team that has a
way of getting a lot of numbers
behind the ball. They’re still talented going forward,” Bob
Bradley said. “To get a goal is
still not always easy.”

U.S. coach: ‘It was a good goal’
BY RONALD BLUM
Associated Press

IRENE, South Africa — The
U.S. soccer team is moving on,
with no way to appeal the disallowed goal that would have given
the Americans a lead in their 2-2
World Cup tie against Slovenia.
Referee Koman Coulibaly of
Mali called off an apparent goal
by Maurice Edu off Landon Donovan’s free kick in the 85th minute
Friday. The U.S. already had rallied from a two-goal deficit.
“There is no process for appeals for a decision on the field,”
team spokesman Michael Kammarman said Saturday. “We have
not asked for any official comment
from FIFA in regards to the call.”
Players asked Coulibaly repeatedly why he whistled off the
goal. Speculation has ranged
from a possible foul on American
captain Carlos Bocanegra, who
had an arm around Nejc Pecnik,
and one on Clint Dempsey, who
pushed Andraz Kirm.
Looking at the replay, more

Slovenes were holding Americans than vice versa. Aleksandar
Radosavljevic held Michael
Bradley in a bear hug,
Bradley had his own theory:
Coulibaly might have regretted
his decision to award the free
kick. Valter Birsa had been called
for a foul on Steve Cherundolo.
“I think it’s a good goal, first.
I think the only things really that
could be called would be penalty
kicks for us,” coach Bob Bradley
said. “There are times when a
referee, for whatever reason,
blows a foul and now thinks either he didn’t make the correct
call on the foul or from a previous play, and then literally as
soon as the free kick’s taken, he
blows his whistle, OK?
“So you can speculate all you
want about which guy and everything, I think it’s a waste of time.
All right? I think there was nothing there. I think it’s a good goal.
And that’s that.”
FIFA spokesman Nicolas
Maingot said Saturday the governing body would not discuss

Coulibaly’s performance before
a scheduled session Monday,
when the 30 World Cup officials
and members of the FIFA Referees Committee will meet with the
media.
The U.S. team has been besieged with questions why soccer
referees don’t publicly explain
controversial decisions, as umpires and referees do in U.S.
sports.
“We’re all accustomed to the
fact that if it’s an NFL playoff
game and there’s a call that’s in
question, there will be a statement by the league from the referees, but FIFA operates differently,” Bradley said. “There are
some aspects of it that are not
made 100 percent clear. That
seems to add to the discussion
about the game. So from our end
we get used to that. And we all
have friends and family who ask
us the same questions that most
of you ask, and you end up saying that’s just how it is sometimes, and then you move on and
you get ready for the next game.”

First second-round berth clinched
Associated Press

DURBAN, South Africa —
Wesley Sneijder scored the only
goal and the Netherlands beat
Japan 1-0. The victory, combined
with Denmark’s 2-1 win over
Cameroon, clinched a spot in the
second round for the Dutch.
Sneijder’s 53rd-minute strike
finally broke through a Japanese
defense that had stifled Dutch
creativity in front of 62,010 fans.
The win set a record of 10
straight victories for the Nether-

lands in World Cup qualifiers
and finals matches — a run that
includes eight qualification
matches and its two wins in
South Africa.
Denmark 2, Cameroon 1
PRETORIA, South Africa —
Dennis Rommedahl scored one
goal and set up another as Denmark beat Cameroon, eliminating the Indomitable Lions.
Australia 1, Ghana 1
RUSTENBURG, South Africa
— Australia held on for a 1-1
draw despite Ghana’s man advan-

tage for more than 66 minutes,
further tightening Group D.
Australia forward Brett Holman scored in the 11th minute after goalkeeper Richard Kingson
bobbled a free kick from Mark
Bresciano. Holman put the rebound past the keeper.
Harry Kewell was given a red
card in the 24th minute after he
blocked a shot from Ghana defender Jonathan Mensah at the
goal line with his upper arm.
Asamoah Gyan converted the
penalty kick in the 25th minute.

NEWTON, Iowa — Danica
Patrick spent last weekend
checking off one of the most
important things on any maid
of honor’s to-do list.
The bachelorette party.
One of Patrick’s best
friends is getting married in
September, so Patrick used
the IRL’s off week between
Texas and Iowa to celebrate.
While that might seem a tad
early to round up the bridesmaids for a bash, the auto racing star had a valid excuse.
“I don’t have a weekend off
until then,” Patrick said.
“That shows how busy I am.”
Patrick’s
ambitious
IRL/NASCAR Nationwide
summer slate kicks off today
with the IRL’s Iowa 250. Then
it’s off to the Nationwide race
in New Hampshire on June
26, the open-wheel road
course event at Watkins Glen
on July 4 and the Nationwide
race in Chicago on July 9.
The next month will mark
the first time Patrick is juggling open-wheel and stock
car racing simultaneously.
She made her much-hyped
debut in the Nationwide series before the IndyCar season started, but she put aside
stock car racing to focus on
the IRL in March.
Patrick’s IndyCar performance has been somewhat
shaky so far. Despite a promising second-place finish in
Texas two weeks ago, Patrick
sits 11th in the points standings through seven races after finishing a career-best
fifth in 2009.
But Patrick believes that
spending more time in race
cars can only help her navigate the difficult schedule
ahead.
“I find myself in a car all
the time now,” Patrick said.
“I find myself out there on
race weekends every weekend, and then testing during
the week. I’m doing so much
more driving than anything
else, which is a definite shift
in the schedule, so it’s fun.
“It’s hard though. You’re

always on
the
spot,
you’re
always trying
to be faster
and faster
and
up
against the
clock. But it
PATRICK
makes you a
better driver. It’s helping me to be able
to adapt in more situations.”
The extra work appears to
be finally paying off. After
finishing sixth in the Indy
500, Patrick ran perhaps the
best race of her IRL career in
Texas.
Patrick rode near the front
for the entire race, even grabbing the lead 36 laps from the
finish before Ryan Briscoe
zipped past her for the eventual win.
That performance was arguably better than Patrick’s
lone IRL win, which came in
Japan two years ago. Patrick
is hoping what worked in
Texas will work well enough
in Iowa to pick up her first
checkered flag on U.S. soil.
“Texas was definitely, top
to bottom, probably my best
race,” Patrick said. “Just
driving up to the front, staying up there and being right
in at the end.”
The buzz over Patrick’s
burgeoning NASCAR career
will kick back up in earnest
after today’s IRL race.
Once up in Loudon, N.H.,
Patrick will have to deal with
the extra attention while adjusting to stock car racing, a
process she acknowledged
Saturday can still be overwhelming.
For now, Patrick is trying
to focus on Iowa, a track
where she’s had mixed results. Patrick finished 13th after a mid-race accident in
2007, started and finished
sixth in 2008 and wound up in
ninth place last year after
leading for 24 laps.
“I really just take it one
day or one weekend at a time,
and I’m not thinking about
Loudon at all,” Patrick said.
“I’m really just thinking of it
as another race weekend.”

BROWN
FROM 1B

Brown, who finished his senior
season when UNC Pembroke was
eliminated from the Peach Belt
Conference tournament in May,
was pitching for the Excelsior
Springs Cougars in the wood-bat
M.I.N.K. League when the draft
took place.
“The M.I.N.K. League is where I
got the exposure I needed,” Brown
said. “I thought it would be worth
my time to come out here.”
Brown’s long journey started at
South Rowan.
He had a reputation in those
days as a talented guy who might
be too laid-back to reach his potential, but the arm and frame were

ELKHART LAKE, Wis. — For the
third year in a row, Carl Edwards made
the most of his cross-country commute
to Wisconsin.
Edwards swooped past Jacques
Villeneuve on a restart with nine laps to
go, then ran away from the field to win
the NASCAR Nationwide series race at
Road America on Saturday. The celebration was brief, as Edwards was scheduled to catch a flight to California so he
can run today’s Sprint Cup race.
Edwards said bringing home a trophy
makes pulling double duty worthwhile.
“For sure!,” he said. “What else was
I going to be doing this afternoon, a
vineyard or something? I’d much
rather be here.”
It was Edwards’ third straight win in
the Nationwide series’ annual trip to Wisconsin — but this one came at a new venue, as the scenic 4-mile road course replaced the financially troubled Milwaukee Mile on the schedule this season.
Veteran road racing ace Ron Fellows
finished second in a Chevrolet, 4.302 seconds behind Edwards’ Ford. Brendan
Gaughan finished third in a Toyota.
“To be racing against Jacques Villeneuve and Ron Fellows on a road
course?,” Gaughan said. “I was having
the time of my life.”
For a while, it looked like Villeneuve,
the 1997 Formula One champion and
1995 Indianapolis 500 winner, might steal
the show.
Villeneuve made a wild charge to the
lead late in the race. But another caution
bunched up the field, allowing Edwards
to make his decisive move.
Villeneuve then had electrical problems in the closing laps, costing him a
potential second-place finish.
“It was actually a lot more fun than
expected,” Villeneuve said. “The cars
drove really well around the course and
it was a fun race. It was obviously a lot
different than the last time I was here,
but it was fun out there today.”
After taking a restart with 12 laps to
go, Villeneuve charged from eighth to

JOHNSON
FROM 1B

“We had some unfortunate luck. We
just had some bad races, and it made for
a long month. But I don’t think we’re in
a slump. We’re not where we want to be,
but I wouldn’t call it a slump.”
Johnson could go a long way to silencing the slump talk with a win on the twisting 11-turn, 1.99-mile course through picturesque Sonoma, a track that requires
a far different skill set from the usual
all-left-turn racing on NASCAR’s ovals.
“It is fair to say that when you’ve won
on a road course, people look at you differently,” Jeff Burton says. “Any time a
driver can accomplish goals and put himself in the realm of conversation about

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Carl Edwards leads the pack during the Bucyrus 200 at Road America.
first in half a lap, with Edwards right behind him. Villeneuve’s tire was smoking
significantly, as it appeared to be rubbing against damaged bodywork on the
front end of his car.
Yet another crash brought out another caution, and Villeneuve took a restart
with nine laps remaining not knowing if
his tire would hold up for the remainder
of the race. Edwards was worried Villeneuve was going to crash — and possibly take Edwards out with him.
“I was really concerned, but I knew
he wasn’t going to listen to me,” Edwards
said.
Edwards then roared past Villeneuve
and into the lead in Turn 1.
Another wreck set up a restart with
three to go, allowing Fellows to pass
Gaughan for third. Villeneuve was in
second with two laps to go, but began to
slip back in the pack with mechanical issues and finished 25th.
Paul Menard and Brad Keselowski
also will fly back to California to run the
Sprint Cup race at Sonoma today.
Edwards is riding on Menard’s plane.
“At one point, we were racing real

hard,” Edwards said. “I thought, ‘Boy, if
we wreck each other, I don’t know if I
can find another ride.’ ”
Keselowski finished fourth and held
onto his series points lead.
It was a rough race for Justin Allgaier, who remains third in the Nationwide series points standings.
Allgaier ran off the track on the second lap of the race, coming to a stop on
the hill between Turns 5 and 6. After a
trip to the garage, Allgaier eventually
re-entered the race and finished 35th.
In all, it was a mixed debut for the Nationwide series at the picturesque, fast
and technically challenging 14-turn road
course that winds through the tree-lined
hills of central Wisconsin.
As expected, the on-track action was
entertaining. But on a four-mile track,
any full-course caution period made for
an extended break in the action.
That included a big wreck on lap 30,
when a nine-car pileup in Turn 6 brought
the race to a halt under a red flag — a
Talladega-style “big one” on a road
course. Racing resumed after a delay of
31 minutes, 31 seconds under the red flag.

who has a chance to win at any kind of
racetrack, that is what he wants to do.”
The series boasts several drivers who
have mastered the technique, and the annual stops at Infineon and Watkins Glen
offer an unusual opportunity. One possibility is Marcos Ambrose, who qualified sixth and is among the favorites.
The Australian was third in last year’s
race and second at Watkins Glen, where
he dazzled Jeff Gordon this month during a Goodyear tire test to the point that
Gordon asked to turn some laps in Ambrose’s car.
Juan Pablo Montoya, a celebrated former Formula One racer, is always considered a favorite. His 2007 victory at
Sonoma remains his only win since moving to NASCAR.
Then there’s Gordon and Tony Stewart, who for a long stretch were just

about the only two drivers who could win
on a road course. The two former series
champions have a combined 16 victories
at NASCAR’s two road courses.
“It’s definitely a place I feel like we’ve
got the potential to win, even before we
make a single lap,” said Stewart, a twotime Sonoma winner.
That’s a position Johnson would love
to be in, but he understands that confidence comes with an improved comfort
level. His plan of attack today is to remain patient and stay calm, no easy feat
considering all the blocking that goes on
from the drop of the green flag.
“I know I can do this,” he said. “I get in
other road course cars, and I’m plenty fast
and competitive. I’ve run good at times in
the Cup car on road courses, so I know I
have it in me. I just need to figure out how
to do it over the course of 90 laps.”

SOUTH
FROM 1B

while Randy Shepherd
launched a three-run moon
shot that landed just over the
barrier.
Blake Houston hit his first
homer of the summer to trigger the fun, and Parker Hubbard smacked the first homer
of his life — a pinch-hit job —
to cap the excitement.
“It was right down the
middle, I swung and knew it
was gone,” said a smiling
Hubbard, although he didn’t
explain how he knew it was
gone if he’d never hit one.
South accepted nine walks
and banged out 16 hits.
Shepherd, who also had a
two-run single, had the best
boxscore line — 3-3-3-5. Fans
groaned briefly when Hubbard pinch hit for Shepherd
in the sixth, but they were
cheering for Hubbard a few
seconds later as he circled

always there.
He went 5-3 with 54 strikeouts
as a junior for the Raiders in 2005
when they still were playing 4A.
He shut out West Forsyth twice.
But his senior year, he fell back
to 1-5 despite 71 strikeouts in 521⁄3
innings and a handful of terrific
outings. On opening day of that
season, he fanned 11 Mooresville
hitters — in four innings.
The summer after his senior
year is when Brown really started
figuring it out. There were nights
when he dominated for the South
Rowan Legion team.
He went 4-3 and struck out a
program-record 18 batters against
Lexington. He held Kannapolis’
Area III champions scoreless for
seven innings.
Brown headed to Surry Community College after high school, but

BASINGER

HUBBARD

the bases.
Joseph Basinger scored
four runs by being patient.
South took the walks, and
when opportunities arose,
guys hit homers.
“I spent a long time waiting for my pitch, but then I
finally got it,” explained
Hogan, who drew two walks
before he lined his three-run
homer in the fifth.
South batted around twice
against an improved Wilkes
squad (5-6). It sent 13 men to
the plate in an eight-run second, and 12 more went to the
dish during a seven-run fifth.
“They made some mistakes and we capitalized of-

he returned for a Legion encore in
the summer of 2007 and put up one
of the best two-way seasons in
South history.
He had transformed himself
from laid-back to vocal leader, and
he went 6-5 with a 2.79 ERA and a
program-record 86 strikeouts in
802⁄3 innings.
He also belted 10 homers — opposite-field pokes over the short
porch in left field at South. He batted .364 and drove in 34 runs.
Brown finished a solid, two-year
stay at Surry in 2008 and signed
with UNC Pembroke.
The final two years of his college career were quietly successful. He worked mostly out of the
bullpen. He was 4-3 with a 2.85
ERA as a senior and struck out 51
in 41 innings. He helped Pembroke
win 34 games.

fensively and scored a lot of
runs — that was the good
part,” South coach Michael
Lowman said. “But we’ve still
got to play a lot better baseball. When we get into to the
playoffs and we’re seeing
No. 1 and No. 2 starters — then
it’s going to be a different
game. Can we win those 3-2
games in the playoffs? Right
now, I’m not sure we can. We
have to get better.”
This was the fourth time
this season that South has allowed double-digit runs and
still managed to win. The positive as far as the pitching was
that while Walker allowed 13
hits — all in the last four innings — he had zero walks.
“We made some errors that
hurt him and then Dylan started missing on some pitches in
the middle of the strike zone,”
Lowman said. “But he kept
battling all night.”
Josh Fox had a homer and
four RBIs to lead Wilkes.
South will send Weston
Smith to the mound at home

Brown relied heavily on his
curveball at Surry, but he added
velocity at Pembroke and replaced
his curve with a slider.
“Pembroke was a great experience for me, and my senior year
went exactly the way you’d want a
senior year to go,” Brown said.
“Every time I went to the mound, I
was thinking to myself, ‘This may
be my last chance. I’ve got to make
something happen.’ ”
Nothing happened with the
draft, but the Washington Nationals, Philadelphia Phillies and Royals were impressed after they saw
Brown in the M.I.N.K. League.
“I’ve worked hard to find my
slider. My fastball is usually 88-90
mph and 91 on my good days,”
Brown said. “I’m not afraid to go
after guys and pound them inside
with the fastball. Then there’s my

tonight against Kannapolis.
He’ll pitch against many of his
NW Cabarrus teammates.

changeup. It’s always been a good
pitch for me.”
Brown will stay in relief where
he’s comfortable, and the Royals
plan to start him with their rookielevel team in the Arizona League.
He’ll play home games at the Royals’ training complex in Surprise, a
Phoenix suburb.
The next step up the ladder for
Brown — the Burlington (N.C.)
Royals of the Appalachian League
— would bring him much closer to
his roots.
He’s determined to make that
climb.
“I’m going to dedicate myself to
the game, I’m not gonna quit and
I’m not gonna stop,” Brown said. “I
believe I can keep moving up. If
the Royals didn’t believe I could do
it, I wouldn’t be here in Arizona
right now.”

BASEBALL

4B • SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 2010

SALISBURY POST

ROWAN
FROM 1B

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Rowan’s Zach Smith sticks out his tongue while digging out of the box on a double.

Slugger Zach Smith went
4 - for-5 with a pair of runscoring doubles and three
RBIs. And leadoff man Preston Troutman stroked two
doubles and reached base
four times.
“Everybody’s contributing
right now,” said Smith. “That’s
all you can ask for. And all
those free baserunners. That’s
never good for any team.”
Including Kannapolis (6-9,
5-7). The hosts produced a
number of timely hits against
RC’s Thomas Allen in the first
three innings, enabling them
to take a 4-3 lead. Justin Seager trimmed Rowan’s edge to
2-1 with an RBI single in the
bottom of the first. No. 9 hitter Zach Jones doubled home
two runs for a 3-2 Kannapolis
edge in the second. And Taylor West tripled and scored on
Dylan May’s groundout to
help K-town regain the lead in
the third.
But after yielding six hits
in the first three innings, Allen
found a rhythm. He persevered into the sixth, finishing
with seven strikeouts in 51⁄3 innings. He allowed seven hits
and was pulled after walking
Wes Honeycutt with his 95th
pitch of the night.
“He hasn’t pitched a whole
lot because of the forearm injury,” Gantt said. “That was
his longest outing for the Legion team. He seemed to get
better as he went. He really
wanted to stay in there, but his
pitch count got up there. It
was in his best interest to get
him out of there.”
Allen, who collected his
first win of the season, was
spelled by Alex Litaker (22⁄3
scoreless innings) and the baffling Will Johnson, who struck
out two in a perfect bottom of
the ninth.
“Thomas didn’t pitch that
bad,” Litaker noted. “He really finished well. Earlier he
was leaving some balls up. I
know when I got to the mound,
everyone had my back.”
Litaker threw the game’s
most important pitch to Justin
Seager with runners at the
corners and one out in the
Kannapolis sixth.
“The first pitch, Luke

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Rowan starting pitcher Thomas Allen casts a big shadow
from the mound at Fieldcrest Cannon Stadium.
(Thomas) called a pitchout,
just to see if anything was
on,” Litaker said. “Then I
threw a couple of changeups. And then an outside
fastball that he chopped to
(Untz).”
Rowan’s second baseman
initiated a 4-6-3 double play
that doused a rally, preserved a shaky two-run lead
and gave the guests the momentum they’d need to prevail.
“Double plays are always
a pitcher’s best friend,”
Gantt said afterward. “They
call them that for a reason.”
Zack Simpson singled
home an insurance run in the
eighth inning before RC
pulled away with in the ninth.
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Red Sox
on verge
of sweep
Associated Press

BOSTON — Dustin Pedroia
singled home the winning run
with two outs in the ninth inning and the Boston Red Sox
overcame Manny Ramirez’s
homer to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-4 on Saturday.
Boston improved to 7-1 on
a nine-game homestand and
will go for a three-game
sweep tonight.
Ramirez homered in his
second game back at Fenway
Park against his former team,
a sixth-inning solo shot off
knuckleballer Tim Wakefield.
The enigmatic slugger also
had his first stolen base since
2008.
Wakefield made his 200th
career start at Fenway, tying
Roger Clemens for the most
in Red Sox history.
Twins 13, Phillies 10 (11)
PHILADELPHIA — Joe
Mauer hit a tying homer off
Brad Lidge to cap a five-run
rally in the ninth inning and
Delmon Young drove in the
go-ahead run in the 11th.
Each team hit a dramatic
homer when it was down to its
last out in a wild game that
featured nine home runs.
Pinch-hitter Jim Thome
cracked a two-run homer in
the ninth off Phillies reliever
Jose Contreras. Two outs later, Mauer’s two-run drive off
Lidge tied it at 9.
Drew Butera’s first career
home run, also a pinch-hit shot,
gave the Twins a 10-9 lead in
the 10th, but pinch-hitter Ross
Gload hit a tying homer off
closer Jon Rauch with two outs
in the bottom half.
Yankees 5, Mets 3
NEW YORK — Mark Teixeira and Curtis Granderson
each hit a two-run homer, Phil
Hughes became the American
League’s second 10-game winner and the New York Yankees ended the Mets’ eightgame winning streak.
Hughes (10-1) gave up two
early home runs to Jose
Reyes, but the Yankees quickly came back against Mike
Pelfrey (9-2).
Hughes went seven innings
and tied Tampa Bay’s David
Price for the AL lead in wins.
Derek Jeter was a late
scratch from the lineup because of a bruised heel.
Angels 12, Cubs 0
CHICAGO — Howie
Kendrick hit a leadoff homer,
and Jered Weaver pitched
seven stellar innings.
White Sox 1, Nationals 0
WASHINGTON — Jake
Peavy pitched a three-hitter
for his fourth career shutout.
Carlos Quentin’s RBI single in the fourth sent the Nationals to their season-worst
sixth consecutive defeat.
Blue Jays 3, Giants 0
TORONTO — Aaron Hill
hit a two-run homer to snap a
scoreless tie in the eighth.
The Blue Jays lead the
majors with 105 home runs.
Diamondbacks 6, Tigers 5
DETROIT — Edwin Jackson pitched into the eighth inning against his former team
and the Diamondbacks
snapped a franchise-record
14-game road losing streak.
Mark Reynolds and Miguel
Montero homered for Arizona,
which earned its first road win
since May 17 at Florida.
Cardinals 4, Athletics 3
ST. LOUIS — Adam Wainwright threw eight innings and
Jason Motte struck out Adam
Rosales with the tying run in
scoring position in the ninth.
Rangers 5, Astros 1
HOUSTON — Colby Lewis
pitched a two-hitter for his
first complete game, rookie
Justin Smoak homered for the
second straight day and the
Rangers extended their season-best winning streak to
seven games.
Rays 9, Marlins 8 (11)
MIAMI — B.J. Upton and
Reid Brignac each drew basesloaded walks in a four-run 11th
inning against Jorge Sosa.
James Shields (6-6), making the first relief appearance
of his 133-game career, threw
a scoreless 10th for Tampa.
Orioles 5, Padres 4
SAN DIEGO — Adam Jones
hit a two-run home run that
gave Kevin Millwood (1-8) his
first victory of the season.
Pirates 6, Indians 4
PITTSBURGH — The
Pirates ended a 12-game slide.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Rockies 8, Brewers 7
DENVER — The Rockies
were down by three entering
the seventh but scored seven
times over the next two innings.

ATLANTA — Troy Glaus figures
it was his turn for
Braves
5 some late-game
Royals
4 heroics.
Glaus hit a
leadoff homer in the ninth inning
and the Atlanta Braves beat the
Kansas City Royals 5-4 on Saturday
for their fourth straight victory.
“Once I got to two strikes, I tried
to do anything I
could to get on,”
Glaus said. “It
probably helped.
It probably shortened up my swing
a little bit to catch
up to it.”
Brian McCann
also homered for
GLAUS
the Braves, who
have won 13 of 14
at home to improve to 23-7 at Turner Field. Atlanta moved 11⁄2 games
ahead of the second-place New
York Mets in the NL East.
Glaus’ 14th homer came off
Robinson Tejeda (2-3) and gave the
Braves 13 victories in their final
at-bat. Though Glaus leads the NL
with 55 RBIs, Atlanta had yet to

win on his last swing of the game.
“Every win is nice,” Glaus said.
“You’d like to not save them ’til the
ninth inning.”
Billy Wagner (5-0) pitched a
scoreless ninth to earn the win.
Royals starter Zack Greinke fell
behind 2-0 in the first. Chipper
Jones hit an RBI single, moved to
second on the throw and advanced
to third on a passed ball. He scored
on shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt’s throwing error. McCann’s
seventh homer, a leadoff shot in the
fourth, made it 3-0.
The Braves went ahead 4-2 in the
sixth when Jason Heyward scored
from second on Glaus’ grounder.
Betancourt tried to begin a double
play, but Jones, who was running
from first, slid hard enough to
knock second baseman Mike Aviles
backward onto the ground.
“I saw Chip go in hard, and
(Aviles) fell down,” Heyward said.
“So that’s when I put my head down
and ran.”
Eric O’Flaherty replaced Atlanta starter Kris Medlen with one
out in the seventh and runners on
second and third, but the Royals
tied it 4-all on Scott Podsednik’s
RBI groundout and Jason Kendall’s
RBI single.

Horned Frogs, Bruins
capture CWS openers
Associated Press

OMAHA, Neb. — Undefeated
freshman Matt Purke limited
Florida State to four singles and
one unearned run over seven innings and Omaha newcomer TCU
scored five times in the first inning on its way to an 8-1 victory
in the opening game of the College World Series on Saturday.
The Horned Frogs (52-12) advanced to a Monday night game
against UCLA. The Seminoles
(47-19), at the CWS for the 20th
time, have lost five of their last
six CWS openers and will play
Florida in a Monday afternoon
Bracket 1 elimination game.
TCU is the first team to win its
CWS debut since Georgia Tech in
1994 — a team that featured future Boston Red Sox stars Nomar
Garciaparra and Jason Varitek.
Purke (15-0), who turned down
a $4 million offer last year as the
Texas Rangers’ top draft pick,
mixed his new changeup with a
fastball in the mid 90s and a devastating curveball. He struck out
four of six batters after Florida
State scored its run and finished
with seven strikeouts. He walked
four to match his season high.
 OMAHA, Neb.— Trevor
Bauer struck out 11 in strong
seven innings and set the UCLA
season record, and the Bruins
cranked up their offense to beat
the Gators 11-3.
The No. 6 seed Bruins scored
in all but one inning and banged
out 18 hits. Niko Gallego went 4
for 5 and Beau Amaral 3 for 4.
They also took advantage of
Florida’s pitching problems.
Gators starter Andy Panteliodis
and four others combined to hit
four batters and throw four wild
pitches, two of which resulted in
runs. The Bruins also scored on a
passed ball and an error.
Bauer (11-3) set the UCLA
strikeout record in his last inning
when he caught Jonathan Pigot
looking at strike three. Bauer
struck out Preston Tucker to end
the seventh, giving him 11.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One of
the most powerful advocates of a
college football playoff system
believes the Big 12’s brush with
death might eventually help
doom the BCS.
It’s not going to happen right
away, said Texas Rep. Joe Barton. But the promise of renewed
television riches that persuaded
the Big 12’s major football members to reject overtures from the
Pac-10 has shone the spotlight on
the huge financial jackpot awaiting a playoff.
“The reason the Big 12 stayed
together is the commissioner was
able to put together a deal that
enabled Texas and Texas A&M to
go from about $8 million-$12 million a year to around $20 million
a year” apiece, the Republican
said. “I don’t really have a dog in
the hunt as to how the conferences ought to be aligned. But I
do think this moves us toward a
playoff because we now know
where the money is.”

NFL

METAIRIE, La. — The New Orleans Saints have agreed to trade

offensive tackle Jammal Brown to
the Washington Redskins for an
undisclosed pick in the 2011 draft.
Brown was selected to the Pro
Bowl following the 2006 and 2008
seasons. He missed all of the
2009 season with a hip injury and
a sports hernia.
 ALAMEDA, Calif. — Defensive lineman Richard Seymour
signed his $12.4 million franchise
tag tender with the Raiders.
 FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. —
The Falcons signed third-round
draft pick Michael Johnson, a
guard out of Alabama.

NBA

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Manute
Bol, a 7-foot-7 shot-blocker from
Sudan who spent 10 seasons in
the NBA and was dedicated to
humanitarian work in Africa,
died Saturday. He was 47.
Bol died at the University of
Virginia Hospital, where he was
being treated for severe kidney
trouble and a painful skin condition, Tom Prichard, executive director of the group Sudan Sunrise, said in an e-mail.

NHL

NEWARK, N.J. — The New
Jersey Devils have reacquired
forward Jason Arnott.
The Devils shipped right wing
Matt Halischuk and a secondround pick in the 2011 to
Nashville for Arnott, who had 19
goals and 27 assists in 63 games
last season.
 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The
Predators acquired defenseman
Ryan Parent from Philadelphia
for defenseman Dan Hamhuis
and a conditional pick in 2011.

GOLF

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J.
— South Korea’s M.J. Hur has
the lead after two rounds of the
ShopRite LPGA Classic, with
comeback kid Paula Creamer one
stroke behind.
Creamer, who is playing for
the first time since having surgery on her left thumb in late
March, had a second-round 65
that was capped by a 45-foot
birdie on the last hole.
 FORT SMITH, Ark. — John
Daly was four strokes off the
lead after shooting a 1-under 69
in the third round of the Fort
Smith Classic, a Nationwide Tour
event, on Saturday.
It’s Daly’s first Nationwide
Tour event since 1991. He is
from Dardanelle, about 75 miles
from Fort Smith, and organizers
hope he can help this struggling
tournament find a title sponsor
so it can remain viable.

TENNIS

WIMBLEDON, England —
Former No. 1 Dinara Safina has
withdrawn from Wimbledon because of a lower back injury that
has plagued her since November.
 DEN BOSCH, Netherlands
— Justine Henin beat No. 7 Andrea Petkovic 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to win
the Unicef Open for her first
grass-court title in three years.
 EASTBOURNE, England —
Unseeded Ekaterina Makarova
defeated Victoria Azarenka 7-6
(5), 6-4 at the Eastbourne International grass-court event to win
her first career title.

GOLF

6B • SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 2010

SALISBURY POST

Mickelson falters on Open moving day
BY TIM BOOTH
Associated Press

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. —
There was no other choice:
Lefty had to play righty.
And that choice on the
ninth hole almost became a
footnote to Phil Mickelson’s
wild third round.
Lefty went home Saturday
night seven shots out of the
lead after a chaotic 2-over 73
that included right-handed

shots, some
remarkable
saves and a
trip to the
beach on the
18th hole.
Unable to
find any cons i s t e n c y , MICKELSON
Mickelson
did his best to give back much
of what he accomplished a day
earlier when his 5-under 66
got himself back near the top

WOODS
FROM 1B

“He’s the best player in the world,”
Johnson said. “It’s not a shock to see he’s
right there.”
The 66 was Woods’ best score since
returning to tournament golf following
his uncomfortable winter on the sideline. The putts, on greens he ridiculed
as “awful” on Thursday, finally started
falling, and he started converting on a
swing that suddenly rounded into form.
“It’s a process,” Woods said. “You
have to just build. All the Opens I’ve
won, I’ve had one stretch of nine holes
where I put it together.”
It’s a testament to his game that he
did it on the back nine at Pebble — the
tougher nine, and the nine the leaders
were playing with bright sunshine and
brisk winds drying out the course and
making the greens bumpy.
The highlight of Woods’ round will
go down as his second shot on No. 18.
Squirreled behind one of the two huge
trees on the right side of the fairway,
his caddie, Steve Williams, told him he
was 260 yards away — the perfect distance to go for it. He crushed a 3-wood,
hustled to his left, yelled at the ball, ‘C’mon, C,mon,’ then watched it land 15
feet from the pin.
A two-putt for a birdie and a round of
66 — only one stroke off the 65 he shot
on opening day at Pebble in 2000, when
he went on to win by a record 15 shots.
On this day, though, memories of
Torrey Pines — where he won his last
major — were more apropos. Two years
ago at the U.S. Open, he was injured,
trying to turn a good Saturday into
something better when he hit a chip shot
from the side of the 17th green that
came out of the rough hot, bounced once
and somehow went in. He took his hat

of the leaderboard. He enters
the final round needing to post
a low number and hoping for
the leaders to falter.
“I’m quite a few shots back,
probably a few more shots
back than I thought I would be
... but anything can happen on
Sunday,” Mickelson said.
Mickelson’s last two titles
— the Masters and ’09 Tour
Championship — were in
come-from-behind fashion.
But those weren’t seven-shot

off, covered his face, laughed sheepishly. Didn’t mean that to happen. But
sometimes it does.
Sort of like his putt on No. 17 at Pebble. Above the hole, 15 feet away, Woods
said the only goal there was “don’t throw
away a great round now.”
“The putt on 17 was a joke,” he said.
“I’m just trying to get it close and walk
out of there. And it happened to go in.”
It’s putts like those that can turn
players into believers, though Woods
never stopped believing, even when others might have.
His spiel after Friday’s round, when
he was seven strokes out of the lead,
buried in 25th, sounded more canned
than condensed soup: He was close, just
needed to make a birdie or two, get to
par and anything could happen at a U.S.
Open.
He looked like nothing more than a
dreamer after the second and third
holes of Saturday’s round. A pair of bogeys. The worse one came on No. 3,
when he drove the ball to 40 yards in
front of the green, then tried to get a
flop shot to lock up on the top right corner of the green — one of the many at
Pebble that Tom Watson said made players feel like they were “putting over a
herd of turtles.”
The shot ran off the green, into the
rough. The bogey ballooned Woods to 6over par, nine shots behind a leader who
hadn’t even hit the course yet.
Eight birdies (and one more bogey)
later, it was a different story. Woods had
moved 22 spots up the leaderboard.
Passed over Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els
and many others on the way.
The thought of him winning major
No. 15 this week certainly doesn’t seem
like such a stretch anymore.
“Well, I’ve got a long way to go before that happens,” Woods said. “It
would feel good. I’ve won U.S. Opens before, and it certainly didn’t feel bad.”

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primed to prevent low rounds.
Mickelson will go off with
Ernie Els at 4:55 p.m. Eastern
time, just before the leaders.
“I’ll be off with the leaders,
and I need to get hot in those
first seven holes that you can
make birdies,” Mickelson
said. “You can makeup a lot of
ground if you make birdies
Sunday at the U.S. Open. It
will be challenging to make up
that many shots.”

Mickelson rolled in a birdie
putt at the 16th to get back to
1 over, only to pull his tee shot
on the 17th near the grandstand well right of the green.
Mickelson avoided bogey by
getting relief from the grandstand, then deftly dropping a
wedge within gimme range.
Then came the 18th. His
tee shot leaked to the left and
danced along Pebble’s perilous seawall before bounding
into the rocks and beach be-

low. Mickelson climbed down
and momentarily thought
about playing from the beach
before taking a penalty.
It might have been his best
decision of the day. From 242
yards Mickelson hit a long
iron to about 30 feet, then twoputted for a most unlikely par.
“I fought hard. I made some
ridiculous up and downs out
there today,” he said. “It was
fortunate to keep me in the
round and in striking distance.”

JOHNSON
FROM 1B

McDowell struggled down the
stretch, fell out of the lead on the
17th and finished with an evenpar 71. He will play in the final
group Sunday, with a familiar
face — and a familiar game —
directly in front. Woods was
alone in third, five strokes back
after his own 66.
Woods finally looks like the
Woods of old.
Nine shots out of the lead after a pair of sloppy bogeys early in his round, Woods hit his
stride by making the clutch
putts and extraordinary shots
that have been missing since he
returned to competition two
months ago.
First came a curling, downhill
birdie putt on the 17th.
He followed that with an aggressive 3-wood on the 18th,
carving it around a cypress and
out toward the Pacific and onto
the green to about 15 feet for a
two-putt birdie. It was his eighth
birdie of the round, the most he
has ever made in a U.S. Open.
And it put him in the mix for
a 15th major, and second U.S.
Open at Pebble Beach.
“It’s been a while,” Woods
said. “I hadn’t played good
enough for anyone to cheer anything. So it was nice to actually
put it together on the back nine
and put myself right back in the
championship.”
Johnson, who played a practice round with Woods on Monday, made it a lot tougher.
The 25-year-old from South

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Dustin Johnson hits a drive on the 10th hole.
Carolina, often overlooked
among the stylish young stars in
golf, put on a powerful display
that led Woods earlier this week
to call him “stupid long.”
The USGA moved the tees
forward on No. 4 to make it play
284 yards up the hill and tempt
players to try to drive the green.
Johnson did just that — with a
3-iron to four feet for an eagle.
And on the 18th, the same hole
where Woods hit 3-wood off the
tee and 3-wood onto the green for
the loudest cheer of the day,
Johnson got there with a driver
and a 6-iron.
“Length is an advantage a lot
of places, but definitely here, es-

pecially if I’m hitting it in the
fairway,” Johnson said. “Because the ball is going a long
way. I’m hitting it extra far.”
Johnson is not flashy. He’s not
a fist-pumper. And he didn’t
sound the least bit flustered
about taking a three-shot lead
into the final round of the U.S.
Open.
“This is what I live for ... to go
out and have a chance to win a
U.S. Open,” he said.
Johnson, McDowell and
Woods were the only three players who remained under par,
while Ernie Els (72) and Gregory Havret of France (69) were at
even-par 213.

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Former Kannapolis Walmart optometrist earns regional honor
Dr. Joyce Adeleke, an optometrist at the Concord Walmart, was named Regional
Optometrist of the Year at the
annual Health and Wellness
conference at Walmart’s
headquarters in Arkansas.
Adeleke worked at the
Kannapolis Walmart for
three years before moving to
the Concord store.
She was selected from
more than 100 optometrists
in the region to receive the
honor based on leadership
when serving her profession
and contributions to the community.
She holds an optometry degree from the Pennsylvania
College of Optometry, as well

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Roundup
as a bachelor of science in
biochemistry from North
Carolina State University.

rus County N.C. Cooperative
Extension, won the Pride of
the Wolfpack Award from the
N.C. State University College
of Agriculture and Life
Sciences.
She was
honored for
leadership
skills, customer focus,
quality
of
service, cost
e f f e c t i v e - BROWN
ness, quality
of work and relationships fostered at work.
Brown works as an office
assistant at the Cabarrus
County Extension center in

Concord.

Fabric Connection to
open in Kannapolis
Fabric Connection, a fabrics-for-less store, selling fabrics for only $5.99 per yard is
holding its grand opening Saturday. It is located at 1216 S.
Main St. in Kannapolis, next
to Carpet Connection.
Fabric Connection has an
array of fabrics from upholsteries, sheers, outdoor fabrics, draperies, fringes and
trims, all for $5.99 a yard.
Owner Jerel Sangandi will
be at the grand opening to help
with fabric choices. Other interior designers and home

renovators will be there.
Fabric Connection is open
Monday through Friday,
10:30 a.m. until 4 p.m., and
Saturdays from 9:30 a.m. until 4 p.m.
For more information, call
704-840-9291 or 704-298-4947.

Popular golfwear
line comes from
Cary manufacturer
ARY (AP) — They remember the
mints. When boxes of golf shirts and
shorts and other high-end menswear
are shipped from the Peter Millar office and
warehouse, the packing list includes mints.
When customers unpack their orders, they
are struck by three things: The quality of
what they’ve ordered; each item comes out of
the box in the order it’s listed on the packing
sheet; and, mints are included for the pleasure of it.
It’s a little thing, but this year when a few
boxes arrived short of mints (they ran out
briefly), phone calls started coming.
At Peter Millar, located in a low-profile office park on the southwest edge of Raleigh,
the attention to detail, commitment to quality
and a North Carolina-grown appreciation of
classic menswear has helped catapult the
company into one of the hottest brands on the
market, particularly for golfers.
The only thing missing is Eastern North
Carolina barbecue.
It’s through golf that the brand has become almost instantly recognizable. It’s what
many of the Titleist touring pros wear at
tournaments. It’s what the NBC Sports golf
team wears. And, it’s what’s the U.S. Ryder
Cup team will wear in Wales this fall.
The brand is the creation of Chris Knott,
who grew up working at a Fuquay-Varina
men’s store and attended East Carolina University. Intent on getting into the men’s
clothing business, Knott worked in New York
and learned quality and style at Hugo Boss
and Burberry among other labels before introducing his own brand of cashmere
sweaters during 2001.
Now, the Peter Millar brand is as familiar
to golfers as Foot-Joy and TaylorMade,
though it’s much more than a golfwear company. Peter Millar golf shirts range from $78
to $98, a price Knott stuck with even when industry insiders suggested he should ask
more per shirt a few years ago.
“I’ve been in the clothing business since I
was 14, and I’ve seen everything come and

Beck, program committee
chairman; Linda Brecher,
calling committee chairman;
Bill Gill, community service
committee chairman; Jerry
Shelby, legislative action
chairman; Eileen Solomon,
social and recreation committee chairman; and members
Tom Bella and Vickie Turner. Representatives from the
Mooresville and Charlotte
AARP chapters were also
present.
Helen Savage, AARP Community Outreach for North
Carolina, and Rhonda Deitch,
AARP Community Outreach
for Western North Carolina,

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Ann Nash of Raleigh unpacks shirts and pulls out sleeves so cuffs can be embroidered at the
Peter Millar warehouse in Cary. The sportswear company in a low-profile office park site just on
the southwest edge of Raleigh has been catapulted into one of the hottest brands on the market, particularly for golfers.

“I felt there was a need for a
product like ours, something that’s
made well and it doesn’t cost a
telephone number to buy it.”
CHRIS KNOTT

founder of Peter Millar brand

go,” Knott said. “Everything was going super high-end and I felt there was a need for
a product like ours, something that’s made
well and it doesn’t cost a telephone number
to buy it.”
Sitting inside his office, Knott is wearing
khakis, a green golf shirt and flip-flop-style
sandals. There are fabric samples scattered
about and mannequins dressed in samples
from the company’s fall collection.
Work has begun on the spring 2011 line.
Along with Scott Mahoney, who joined the
company as president and CEO in 2005,
Knott has nurtured Peter Millar into a dynamic player in the industry without surrendering its small company touches.
A beagle, with the title of vice president
for security, wanders the stockroom where
shelves are stacked with boxes of everything
in the collection. On Friday, the 55 employees

eat hot dogs together at lunch.
The clothes are made around the world,
but they wind up at the office park in Cary
where each order is hand packed. There’s an
embroidery shop on site where club logos are
stitched.
“You can identify their merchandise from
a million miles away,” says Marty Hackel,
fashion editor for Golf Digest magazine.
“When you can identify clothes without looking at the label, you know they’ve done something significant.”
Peter Millar, Knott and Mahoney will tell
you, is not a golf brand but a lifestyle brand.
Mahoney talks about capturing a “share of
the closet,” which means outfitting a man
from shoes to a coat.
They have a simple philosophy: If it’s
something Knott or Mahoney — two middleaged men — wouldn’t wear, they won’t make
it. “We are our customers,” Knott says.
The company even offers boxer shorts,
which are expensive — three pair for $90 —
but are so popular there were none in the
warehouse recently, forcing customers to
wait.
And, you might ask, just who is Peter Millar?
Knott’s mother was an antiques dealer and
years ago bought a collection that included
an antique lawnball. The ball had its owner’s
name — Peter Millar — printed on it. The
ball is on display at the office in Cary.

The N.C. Department of Labor
honored area employers and employees at the agency’s annual safety
awards banquet in Concord on Friday.
“It’s really an honor for me to travel throughout the state and recognize
these employers who are making a
commitment to their employees’ safety and health,” Labor Commissioner
Cherie Berry said. “These employers
are helping to make North Carolina
workplaces some of the safest in the
country.”
The awards honor outstanding onthe-job safety achievements of each
company during 2009. Recipients
were from Salisbury, Gold Hill, Granite Quarry, Charlotte, Colfax, Concord, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Mount
Pleasant, Mooresville and WinstonSalem.
The event is co-sponsored by the
N.C. Department of Labor and the
Cabarrus Regional Chamber of Commerce. The banquet was held at the
Cabarrus Country Club in Concord.
Under program rules, companies
must have been free of fatal accidents at the site for which the award
is given to be eligible. The gold award
criteria are based on being at least 50
percent below the statewide rate for
its industry, including days away
from work, restricted activity or job
transfer. The silver award is based
on cases with days away from work.

DEAR BRUCE: I keep hearing that
setting up a prepaid funeral plan is
not a good idea because the funeral home jacks up the prices. How
can this be if you select the casket,
etc., ahead of time? Our daughter
passed away four months ago, and
we were fortunate to have the
$10,000 to pay for her funeral. My
husband and I were leaning toward
getting a prepaid funeral plan for
ourselves because my son would not
be able to afford to bury us. We each
have a $20,000 term-insurance policy, but the policy won’t get paid out
until weeks later after a death, and
that’s only if we die before age 80,
which is when the term policy expires! If we do the prepaid plan we
can just give the insurance money
to our daughter’s two sons. What is
your advice on this?
— Nora
via e-mail

Smart money
DEAR NORA: It seems to me that
you have several misconceptions.
First of all, I don’t know to whom
you are talking to, but if you have a
prepaid funeral plan, that’s it! The
prices are established when you pay
it, and they are not “jacked up.” Getting to your own situation, you mentioned you have a term policy that
“expires” when you turn 80. This is
possible but more often than not,
what this really means is that the
term ends and the policy will have
to be renewed at a higher premium.
Whether you wish to pay that is another story. You will have to change
the policy in order for that to happen unless they are the currently
named beneficiaries. The idea of a
prepaid funeral, in my opinion, is an
excellent one. As long as you are
dealing with an established, reliable
attorney in your area, there is little

to be worried about. It is an ultimate
act of love, given that it takes away
the responsibility of choosing the
when, where, how and costs from
someone else and gives it to yourselves.
DEAR BRUCE: What is the best
type of U.S. Savings Bonds to buy
for my granddaughters? They say
waiting to take your Social Security is more beneficial. It seems to
me, even though you will be getting
less money monthly, you will be getting the money longer (hopefully),
by starting early. What is your opinion?
— Patty
via e-mail

DEAR PATTY: Your first question,
in my opinion, is relatively simple.
U.S. Savings Bonds are not a good
buy for anybody in today’s marketplace. In some cases the interest adjusts. Nonetheless, it is a pitifully
small amount of interest. There are

many other gifts you can give your
granddaughters, including interest
in companies’ stocks. There was a
time when savings bonds where not
only patriotic, but to your interest.
They still may be patriotic, but they
are not in your best interest. As for
the Social Security, it is your call to
make. If you start collecting early,
it is true that, if you pass away before sometime in your late 70s (depends upon the specific retirement
age and place for you), you are
ahead of the game. If you live past
that point, every payment you receive puts you further behind. It
might be nice to know when you are
going to pass, but most of us don’t
have that privilege. That makes it
your call. It’s an early deal for the
first 12 to 15 years, but afterward,
it’s a bad deal!
Send your questions to: Smart
Money, P.O. Box 2095, Elfers, FL
34680.
E-mail
to:
bruce@
brucewilliams.com. Questions of
general interest will be answered.

BUSINESS

2C • SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 2010

ROUNDUP

CMC-University is
a 130-bed hospital in
the University City
area of Charlotte that
includes a wide variety
of
services.
Leonard is a graduate
of UNC-Chapel Hill
and earned a master’s
LEONARD
degree in health administration from
Duke University. A
native of Greensboro, he is married
with two children. He has served in
various health care leadership positions for 22 years.
CMC-University is a part of the
CMC “Metro Group” of hospitals,
which are overseen by Executive Vice
President Dennis Phillips. The other
Metro Group hospitals are Anson Community Hospital, CMC, CMC-Lincoln,
CMC-Mercy, CMC-NorthEast, CMCPineville, CMC-Randolph, CMC-Union,
Carolinas Rehabilitation and Carolinas
Rehabilitation-Mount Holly.
Leonard succeeds Spencer Lilly,
who recently took a position as the top
administrator at CMC-Mercy in Charlotte.

FROM 1C

led the program. Brainstorming sessions included chapter leadership recruitment and development, membership recruitment, Create the Good
(AARP’s program providing opportunities and incentives for chapter volunteer involvement) and health care
reform.
Chapter officers shared information
on their best practices in community
service, education, recruitment and
other areas.
Salisbury-Rowan chapter members
volunteer as SHIIP (Seniors Health Insurance Information Program) counselors and provide information and
help on Medicare and other issues.
The Salisbury-Rowan AARP chapter meets the first Thursday of the
month at Rufty-Holmes Senior Center,
1120 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Ave., at
1 p.m. The last meeting of each calendar quarter (March, June, September
and December) includes a covered dish
lunch at noon. Rowan County residents
who are 50 years and older are invited
to join the chapter. Members do not Home designer earns cruise
have to be retired. Annual dues for the
chapter are $3. New members joining for sales, recruitment
Kannapolis resident Michelle
during the year have dues prorated at
25 cents per month for each month re- Broadway, an independent designer
maining in the year. For more infor- with Celebrating Home, won a cruise
to Alaska awarded by the home décor
mation, call 704-216-7714.
direct selling company to recognize exceptional sales and recruitment
Leonard named president
achievement.
of CMC-University
Award winners enjoyed the eightBill Leonard has been named pres- day cruise from May 11-18.
ident of Carolinas Medical CenterMore than 45,000 Celebrating Home
University.
designers work in the United States
He has been serving as CEO of the and Puerto Rico. Home-based business
Union Hospital District in Union, S.C., owners like Broadway market the
since October 2006. The Union Hospi- company’s products that include
tal District is an affiliate of Carolinas stoneware pottery, candles, wall décor,
HealthCare System, which also in- gourmet food mixes, dining and entercludes CMC-Northeast in Concord.
tainment pieces and accessories.
Leonard will report to Phyllis
Wingate-Jones, Division President of
Submit information about new busiCarolinas Medical Center-NorthEast, nesses, honors and management prowho also oversees operations at CMC- motions to bizbriefs@salisburypost.
University.
com. Include a daytime phone number.

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Con-

Strike ends at Toyota’s
China-based parts supplier
TOKYO (AP) — A strike at one of Toyota’s China-based parts suppliers has ended, allowing production to resume at its
nearby auto plant Monday after a one-day
stop, the Japanese automaker said.
The strike is among several that have
plagued Toyota and Japanese rival Honda
Motor Co. in China, which has been shaken by unrest among migrant workers who
are becoming increasingly vocal in their
demands for a piece of China’s growing
prosperity.
Workers at a plastic parts factory of
Toyota Motor Corp. affiliate Toyoda Gosei
Co. in the northeastern city of Tianjin went
on strike Thursday, forcing the plant’s production line to shut down. That ended Saturday. Production was set to resume today.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — French President
Nicolas Sarkozy said Saturday that he wanted to work
with Russia to give developing nations a larger say in
how to regulate the global
economy.
Global financial institutions such as the World Bank
and International Monetary
Fund — created at the Bretton Woods conference in
New Hampshire 1944 — are
outdated and must be replaced, Sarkozy told an economic forum in St. Petersburg hosted by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
“We all need to think
about the foundations for a
new international financial
system. We’ve been based on
the Bretton Woods institutions of 1945, when our
American friends were the
only superpower,” Sarkozy
said.
“My question is: Are we
still in 1945? The answer
here is, ’no,”’ he said.
While the Bretton Woods
conference took place in
1944, the International Monetary Fund was officially established a year later, when
the 29 countries that had participated signed its Articles
of Agreement.
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China, India, Brazil, Mexico?”
Sarkozy asked. He said the
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G-20, a group of 20 wealthy
and developing nations.
The French president
pledged to work with Russia
during next week’s session of
the G-20 in Canada to address
some of the most urgent issues
that have emerged from the
global financial crisis, such as
restricting offshore financial
zones and abolishing the “law
of the jungle” that he says governs the global economy.
Sarkozy also said the G-20
“should think together about
a new international currency
system,” but had no details.
Medvedev went further,
stressing the need for more
reserve currencies besides
just the euro and the dollar.
“We are making plans for
the future. We are talking
about creating other reserve
currencies, and we are counting on other countries to understand this,” Medvedev
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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — School districts
in southwest Ohio say they’ll lose thousands of dollars if Duke Energy Corp. is
successful in a challenge of its personal
property tax assessment.
The power company has held back on a
$20 million payment as the Ohio Board of
Tax Appeals considers the challenge filed
in December.
The issue affects about 700 school districts and communities in several counties. Among them, the Lakota school district expects to lose $750,000 and the Monroe schools expect a loss of more than
$100,000.
Charlotte, N.C.-based Duke pays Ohio
personal property tax on items including
meters, substations and transition lines.
Spokeswoman Pat Hoffmann says the
state’s assessment “significantly overvalues” the property and that it could have
cut $40 million from its tax bill based on
its calculations.

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION
NORTH CAROLINA
IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE
DISTRICT COURT DIVISION
ROWAN COUNTY
10 CVD 1203
FREDA COBLE BURGOS,, Plaintiff,
v.
ROBERT MITCHELL NIKOSON, a/k/a ROBERT MICHAEL DENTON, Defendant
TO: ROBERT MITCHELL NIKOSON:

You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than the 26th day of
July, 2010 and upon your failure to do so the party seeking relief against you will
apply to the court for the relief sought.

UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of a judgment and execution issued by the above
named court in the above-entitled action on the 12th day of February in the year
2010, directed to the undersigned Sheriff from the Superior Court of ROWAN
County, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash whatever right, title, and
interest, the judgment debtor owns or may own in the following described real
property which is subject to sale under execution. This judgment was docketed on
the 6th day of January in the year of 2010 and at which time the said real property
was in the name of the defendant. The highest bidder at the sale will be required
to make a cash deposit in the amount of 20% of the bid. This sale shall be held on
the 2nd day of July in the year 2010 at 11:00 o'clock a.m., at the following location:
Rowan County Courthouse in Salisbury, NC (inside) as designated by the Clerk of
Superior Court. This sale shall be made subject to all liens, mortgages, easements, encumbrances, unpaid taxes and special assessments which were or became effective on the record prior to the lien of the judgment under which this sale
is being held. There is a deed of trust or mortgage on file with the Register of
Deeds on this property. The judgment debtor has not claimed his/her exemptions
in this real property.
The real property being sold is described as that certain tract(s) of land lying and
being in Salisbury Township, Rowan County:
Being all of Lot Nos. 13, 14, 15, 16, 25, 26, 27, and 28, Block G, as shown on the
plat of Eastview, formerly the property of J. L. Fisher and J.B. Morrison, made by J.
D. Justice, C.S., October 9th , 1943 and duly registered in Book of Maps, Page 473,
Office of the Register of Deeds for Rowan County.
The property hereinabove described was acquired by Grantor by instrument
recorded in Book 956 page 189.
Judgment amount:
Principal due
$43,750.00
Interest due through 06/04/10 $ 1,352.05
Court Cost and atty. fee
$ 105.00
Other fees
$ 354.79
Sheriff's Commission
$ 1,151.55
Total
$46,713.39
Also there will be the cost for the auctioneer and cost for the ad in the Salisbury
Post Newspaper.
Bidders are responsible for doing their own research. Property sold as is with no
warranties or certifications being issued.
This the 15th day of June in the year 2010.
Sale will be conducted by McDaniel Auction Company NCAL 48 Firm Lic. 8620

Regular Price $60.00

704-636-0674

UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of a judgment and execution issued by the above
named court in the above-entitled action on the 21st day of April in the year 2010,
directed to the undersigned Sheriff from the Superior Court of ROWAN County, I
will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash whatever right, title, and interest, the
judgment debtor owns or may own in the following described real property which is
subject to sale under execution. This judgment was docketed on the 14th day of
February in the year of 2008 and at which time the said real property was in the
name of the defendant. The highest bidder at the sale will be required to make a
cash deposit in the amount of 20% of the bid. This sale shall be held on the 2nd
day of July in the year 2010 at 11:00 o'clock a.m., at the following location: Rowan
County Courthouse in Salisbury, NC (inside) as designated by the Clerk of Superior Court. This sale shall be made subject to all liens, mortgages, easements, encumbrances, unpaid taxes and special assessments which were or became effective on the record prior to the lien of the judgment under which this sale is being
held. There is a deed of trust or mortgage on file with the Register of Deeds on this
property. The judgment debtor has not claimed his/her exemptions in this real
property.
The real property being sold is described as that certain tract(s) of land lying and
being in Atwell Township, Rowan County:
Being all of Lot 94 as recorded on a plat of Willow Creek, Block V, in Book 9995 at
Page 2712 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rowan County to which reference is hereby made for a more complete description.
Judgment amount:
Principal due
$5,651.61
Interest due through 12/04/09 $ 90.43
Court Cost and atty. fee
$1,221.16
Other fees
$2,136.77
Sheriff's Commission
$ 240.00
Total
$9,339.97
Also there will be the cost for the auctioneer and cost for the ad in the Salisbury
Post Newspaper.
Bidders are responsible for doing their own research. Property sold as is with no
warranties or certifications being issued.
This the 21st day of May in the year 2010.
Sale will be conducted by McDaniel Auction Company NCAL 48 Firm Lic. 8620

NOTICE OF EXECUTION SALE OF REAL PROPERTY
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE
COUNTY OF ROWAN
SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION
File 09cvs4175
ANDRESEN & ARROUNTE PLLC, Plaintiff,
- VS LARRY EDWARD ROBERTS, Defendant

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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE
COUNTY OF ROWAN
SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION
File 07cvd3820
UNIFUND CCR PARTNERS, Plaintiff,
- VS TIMOTHY DARREN WILKES, Defendant

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9:30am in Courtroom 2 at the Rowan County Courthouse in Salisbury, North Carolina to determine whether the Order will be continued.

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(AP) — The oil spill in the Gulf
of Mexico is causing confusion over whether it’s OK to
swim on Alabama beaches.
In Orange Beach, two red
flags flew Saturday and beach
patrols told people to stay out
of Gulf waters. Some of the
city was hit with a new wave
of crude and tar balls during
the morning.
A few miles away, though,
people were in the water at
Gulf Shores, where only yellow warning flags were flying.
The state has issued advisories telling people to stay
out of Gulf waters because of
oil, and Gulf Shores Mayor
Robert Craft says his city tells
visitors to stay out of the water when tar balls are present.
Craft says city officials are
consulting with state health
officials about water conditions.
•••
An Associated Press-GfK
poll released this past week
showed 52 percent now disapprove of President Obama’s
handling of the oil spill, up significantly from last month.
BP, Britain’s largest company before the oil rig exploded, has lost about 45 percent
of its value since the explosion
— a drop that has alarmed millions of British retirees whose
pension funds hold BP stock.
Just this past week, the company announced it was canceling its quarterly dividend.
The British press, much
more sympathetic than the
American media to BP’s
plight, has expressed disbelief
at the company’s strategy.
“It is hard to recall a more
catastrophically mishandled
public relations response to a
crisis than the one we are witnessing,” the Daily Telegraph’s Jeremy Warner wrote
Friday.
About 50 miles off the
coast, a newly expanded containment system is capturing
or incinerating more than 1
million gallons of oil daily, the
first time it has approached
its peak capacity, according
to the Coast Guard. BP hopes
that by late June it will be able
to keep nearly 90 percent of
the flow from the broken pipe
from hitting the ocean.
More than 120 million gallons have leaked from the
well, according to the most
pessimistic federal daily flow
rate estimates. Oil has been
washing up from Louisiana to
Florida, killing birds and fish,
coating delicate marshes and
wetlands and covering pristine beaches with tar balls.
Meanwhile, Anadarko Petroleum Corp., which owns a
quarter of the blown-out oil
well, had its debt downgraded
late Friday amid a heated dispute over BP’s operation of
the well.
Moody’s Investor Services
downgraded Anadarko long
term debt, and placed the
company’s ratings under review for further possible
downgrades. Earlier in the
day, Anadarko blasted BP’s
“reckless decisions and actions” that led to the explosion.
Anadarko Chairman and
CEO Jim Hackett’s statement
came after some elected officials said Anadarko should
help pay for the cleanup.

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rig BP was leasing exploded April 20.
“He’s spending a few hours with
his family at a weekend. I’m sure that
everyone would understand that,”
Wine said.
He noted Hayward is a well known
as a fan of the J.P. Morgan Asset
Management Round the Island Race,
one of the world’s largest, which attracts more than 1,700 boats and
16,000 sailors as famous yachtsmen
compete with wealthy amateurs in a
50-nautical mile course around the
island at England’s southern tip.
“Bob” finished fourth in its group.
It was not clear whether Hayward
actually took part in Saturday’s race
or attended as a spectator.
Hayward had already angered
many in the U.S. when he was quoted in the Times of London as suggesting that Americans were particularly likely to file bogus claims for compensation. He later shocked
Louisiana residents by telling them
that no one wanted to resolve the crisis as badly as he did because “I’d
like my life back.”

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A yacht owned by BP Chief Executive Tony
Hayward sails in a race Saturday off the south
coast of England.

EMPIRE, La. (AP) — BP chief executive Tony Hayward took a day off
Saturday to see his 52-foot yacht
“Bob” compete in a glitzy race off
England’s shore, a leisure trip that
further infuriated residents of the
oil-stained Gulf Coast.
While Hayward’s pricey ship
whipped around the Isle of Wight on
a good day for sailing — breezy and
about 68 degrees — anger simmered
on the steamy Gulf Coast, where
crude has been washing in from the
still-gushing spill.
“Man, that ain’t right. None of us
can even go out fishing, and he’s at
the yacht races,” said Bobby Pitre,
33, who runs a tattoo shop in the
Larose, La. “I wish we could get a day
off from the oil, too.”
BP spokespeople defended Hayward, who has drawn criticism as the
public face of BP PLC’s halting efforts to stop the worst offshore oil
spill in U.S. history.
Company spokesman Robert Wine
said the break is the first for Hayward since the Deepwater Horizon

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For a Salisbury dental
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Education & Experience: Bachelor's degree
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three years experience in the hospitality industry preferred. Working nights, weekends
and travel may be required. Salary Range:
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Send resume and salary history to Rowan
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Customer Service Representatives
This is a catalog order entry position requiring good computer skills, prior office experience, and a background in customer service. Must be a quick learner, have excellent verbal and written communication skills
with attention to detail and possess the
ability to work in a fast paced environment.
Position requires Pre-employment drug
screen and background check. 40 hours
per week, hours are 11 am-8 pm Mon – Fri.

Rowan-Cabarrus Community College seeks
applications for Special Assistant, Law Enforcement Training and Criminal Justice
Programs. Required: Associate degree in
Office Administration or related field. Proficient computer skills in "Microsoft Office"
and two years' secretarial work experience.
Must possess good public relations and oral
communication skills accompanied by a
good attitude and positive work ethic.
Deadline for applications: July 31, 2010.
Interested candidates may apply online at
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(Full & Part-time)
For Piedmont Transportation, headquartered in Salisbury.
Must be able to perform routine maintenance on tractors
and trailers. Competitive pay and benefits.
Apply at 200 Montclair Dr. EOE M/F

Required: Bachelor's degree in Health Information Management or related area with an
emphasis in the instruction of health-related
information systems. Minimum of two years
work experience as an HIM (Health Information Manager) or HIT (Health Information
Technician) with broad experience in the areas of current procedural terminology (CPT)
and international classification of diseases
(ICD-9). Certification as an RHIA (Registered
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Required: Master's degree in science with
at least 18 semester hours of course work
at the graduate level in life or physical
science. Experience in cell culture and the
ability to teach a laboratory-based course in
cell culture.

Part-time position as Visitor Services Coordinator for the Rowan County Tourism Development Authority. Responsible for four key areas: Visitor Services, Marketing Support &
Public Relations, Trolley Coordination, and
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Republic Waste Services, Inc is seeking a
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Experience Preferred
Republic Services offers competitive pay and
excellent benefits including health and 401k.
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Rockwell Farms, a 32 acre
wholesale greenhouse located in
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maintenance duties. Basic Electrical and Mechanical skills required. Salary 12.00-14.00+ per
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Mitchell Community College
has been educating the
community since 1852.
Today, it’s one of the fastest
growing colleges with
locations in Statesville and
Mooresville. You can
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Taste success!
S&D Coffee, Inc. has been
providing commercial customers
with a full line of specialty
coffees, tea blends and juices
since 1927. Continued growth at our Concord,
NC manufacturing headquarters has created
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Free Kittens! Best friend
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Building, used, for sale
10' x 12' metal building
with wood frame. Like
new, used lightly and will
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The Federal Trade
Commission says
companies that promise
to scrub your credit
report of accurate
negative information for
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negative information
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You'll love all seasons of the year in this cozy home in
Plantation Ridge. Spend your summer days grilling on
the back deck or relaxing on the front porch swing.
Winters will be warmer as you enjoy the gas logs in
the spacious family room. Fully renovated over the
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walking
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Very nice large 4BR/2BA
doublewide mobile home
(2100 sq/ft). Located on
large lot in the West
Rowan area of Salisbury.
$800.00 Mo, RENT OR
RENT TO OWN. Other
mobile homes also available in the Salisbury and
Cleveland area. Section
8 applicants welcome to
apply. 704-855-2300
West & South Rowan. 2
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for 3. Water included.
Please call 704-857-6951

Chevy, 2004 Colorado
Extra clean inside & out! 4
doors, 5 cylinder, this gas
saver is perfect for the first
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back to work and home vehicle. All power, like new
tires, cold ac, roll pan, exhaust. 704-603-4255

FORD, 2006 Freestyle, SE
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dealership. Asking price
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You have a competent ally who has always
wanted to team up with you but has never gotten a chance to do so. Things are about to
change in the year ahead, which will enable
you to share a wonderful enterprise with this
individual.
Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Don’t just sit
around doing nothing — get involved in some
kind of social activity that includes people
who make you laugh. Do something that enlivens your mental attitude.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) — A most unexpected person might confide to you a matter
of importance. If this individual is seeking advice, be as candid and honest with him/her as
you deem necessary.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — There are few signs
who enjoy social activities or encounters more
than you do. Which is good, because today you
may find yourself in great demand with more
than one group clamoring for your company.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You won’t be
looking for any financial recompense when
asked to help out with a project. The praises
you receive for your accomplishments will be
worth more than anybody could pay you.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Although it is
nothing new to you, when asked for suggestions, you will be full of good ideas today. Others will be so impressed at how easily you
came up with them, and their acclaim will
blow you away.
Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Chances are you
will have to gain the confidence of someone
whose support you need, which might not be
easy. Although patience and sincerity will be
essential, you can do it.
Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Even if you
don’t normally confide in a certain person, if
asked, don’t hesitate to discuss what’s been
bothering you and keeping you so uptight. S/he
may turn out to be a good confidante.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Be patient and
modify any hasty impulses before acting on
them. Your goals are reachable at this time,
but they might take doing things slowly, one
step at a time.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — There is a
strong chance that you might hear some good
news from a friend who lives far away that
could involve you if you want in. It may be a
lucky break.
Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — Fresh thinking on an important matter could contain the
seeds for a solution to a problem that’s been
plaguing you. With the basic premise in place,
you will be able to build from there.
Aries (March 21-April 19) — Get out of the
house and go someplace or do something that
offers a new and different venue. A change
from your regular routine would do you a
world of good and refurbish your outlook.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Something you
were hoping would come your way may finally happen. It might not be anything that will
turn your world around, but it could bring you
a lot of happiness.
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Kevin Costner’s centrifuges
deploy for Gulf oil cleanup
PORT FOURCHON, La.
(AP) — Kevin Costner is taking Hollywood star power
and some oil-separating centrifuges to the fight against
the Gulf of Mexico spill.
Energy giant BP PLC has
ordered 32 of the centrifuges
from a company co-founded
by the Hollywood actor. Costner joined BP officials for an
inspection Friday of a barge
that will take three of the devices into the Gulf starting
this weekend.

Officials say skimmer vessels will pump oily water onto
the barge where the centrifuges can process a total of
600,000 gallons a day, separating the gunk from water.
Costner says he “didn’t come
to save the day” but is gratified the technology is being
deployed.
Desperate crews are trying an array of tools, even
shop vacs and vacuum
trucks, in their quest to clean
the Gulf waters.

are making a cinematic stand.
They do it with movies
that are sold here only on
DVD, will never make it to
Western art house cinemas,
and can withstand only the
gentlest of criticism.
There are shaky camera
angles, wildly awful hairpieces and dialogue with the
cadence of a press conference (“To achieve our goal we
must try to attain our objectives and what we have
vowed to do,” a hero intones
in “Black Poison,” an anti-opium morality tale).
Each film is a patchwork
of themes — romance,
thriller, weepy family drama
— knitted together by martial
arts battles and lots of squirting sheep’s blood bought
from local butchers. The bad
guys all seem to have scars,
limps or both. The good guys
often wear white. They are
made, very often, with little
beyond a camcorder, a couple of workshop lights and
some pirated editing software.
But, they’ll tell you here,
their battle is worth fighting.
“We are changing how
people think,” said Khan.
“Young people see our
movies and they know that
Afghanistan is not just AK47s and war. There’s something else here too.”
In a country where most
people live in desperate
poverty, the movies show fantasies of middle-class Afghan
life alongside the action and
adventure. There are people
with steady jobs, helpful government officials, uncorrupted policemen.
But the films also reflect
the world around them. Jalalabad is not in the Taliban

heartland but it is a part of
Afghanistan’s deeply conservative Pashtun belt. Osama
bin Laden once had a mansion
just outside the city, and he
escaped U.S. forces from his
nearby mountain compound
in Tora Bora.
So actresses tend to be rarities in Pashto-language films
— few families allow their
daughters to enter the movie
business, and nearly all actresses must come from Pakistan. Sex is not even hinted at.
Song-and-dance scenes,
which are at the heart of most
South Asian movies, steer
very clear of risque moves,
with actors often lip-synching to music lifted from Pakistani movies.
The Taliban hardly exist in
these movies. Religious extremism is sometimes hinted
at, but most bad guys are
generic gangsters or drug
smugglers.
To the Taliban, though, the
moviemakers are evil.
The Islamist fighters detest all forms of public entertainment, particularly any depiction of the human form,
which they believe is forbidden by the Quran. When the
Taliban ran the country,
movies were forbidden, cinemas were closed and videotapes could only be watched
in secret.
When they were forced
from power, though, that
quickly changed.
“One week after the Taliban were gone we were filming again,” said Farooq Sabit,
a one-time kung fu master
who runs a small Kabul photography studio and has directed a half-dozen or so
movies. He works in Dari,
Afghanistan’s most widely

spoken language. The Dari
film industry is better off
than the Pashto movie world.
The Taliban have far less influence in Dari-speaking regions, and filmmakers’ hurdles are more financial than
physical.
If the Pashto speakers
have the pharmacist to thrill
to, the Dari film world has
Saleem Shaheen, the unlikely sex symbol who may be the
country’s biggest star.
He’s a round, fleshy man
in his mid-40s with dozens of
movies behind him as an actor, writer, producer and director. He also has the ego of
a Hollywood mogul.
“My interviews are very
interesting,” he said, sitting
down with a visiting reporter.
“More people will read your
article because of me.”
Through a small acting
school, relentless self-promotion and even more self-confidence, he has been a force
in Afghan moviemaking for
decades.

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Actor Kevin Costner, left, founding partner of Ocean Therapy
Solutions, speaks at a news conference about his company’s
centrifuge machine designed to separate oil and water in Port
Fourchon, La., on Friday, as BP COO Doug Suttles look on.

J A L A L A B A D ,
Afghanistan (AP) — In real
life he’s a pharmacist, a polite young man who dispenses antibiotics and advice in a
tiny Jalalabad shop barely 40
miles from where Osama bin
Laden disappeared into the
mountains.
But when evening falls,
when Zhaid Khan shuts the
pharmacy’s gates and sends
his young assistant home, he
becomes someone else. Then
he’s a lover (albeit a chaste
one). He’s a singer (or at least
a lip-syncher). He’s a fighter,
a hero, a defender of the powerless.
You’ve never heard of
him, but Zhaid Khan is a
movie star.
The quiet pharmacist is
the chiseled face, the rippling
muscles, the romantic hero of
the minuscule Pashto-language vision of Hollywood set
amid the towns and mountains of eastern Afghanistan.
It’s a region where American
drones regularly hover overhead, Taliban attacks come
all too regularly and it takes
more than a little courage to
be an actor.
Khan is famous across
Jalalabad, and fans sometimes come to the pharmacy
to gawk at him and ask for autographs. Sometimes, though,
the Taliban seek him out too.
They leave him notes in the
night, warning they’ll burn
down his shop and kill him.
One day, he fears, they’ll follow through on their threats.
But as Afghanistan struggles with an Islamist insurgency that has surged back
since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion, putting broad swaths of
the country under Taliban
control, a handful of actors

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June 20, 2010

SALISBURY POST

www.salisburypost.com

Shifting
to the triple
bottom line:

The oil spill, Earth
& sustainability
BY JOHN E. WEAR

www.centerfortheenvironment.org

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ASSOCIATED PRESS

Thousands of tea-party supporters gathered in Searchlight, Nev., earlier this year to rally support for conservative principles.

From anger to action
Tea party backers explain their motivation
and what they’re seeking to accomplish
BY PAULINE ARRILLAGA
Associated Press

Y

UCCA VALLEY, Calif. — Bill Warner
is hardly a naive man. He ran his own
engineering firm for three decades,
and sold the assets just before the economy
tanked. He built his dream home on a majestic hill abutting a national park, back when
the housing market was steady. While some
neighbors have since been foreclosed upon,
Warner is resurfacing his flagstone deck.
And so he understands that in the world
of politics, his little group — the Lincoln
Club of the Morongo Basin — is but a molecule in the figurative drop in the bucket of
power and influence.
Its stated purpose is “to promote, educate
and advance conservative principles of fiscal responsibility, small limited government, free enterprise, the rule of law, private property rights, and the preservation
and protection of individual liberty.” The organization has some 25 members and has
raised $10,000.
“It’s our way of doing what we can do,” he
says.
Warner is 65 and soft-spoken, the kind
who asks questions before making decisions.
He doesn’t consider himself a rabble-rouser
or “tea party-er.”
Yet this past March, Warner packed up
his motorhome and drove with his wife, Pat,
to Searchlight, Nev., to join thousands of
others at a tea party rally dubbed the Woodstock of conservatism.
There were, as his friend put it, some
“wackadoos” among the masses: The Barrel
Man wearing only a barrel and a hat, the guy
dressed like Jesus.
There were also plenty of people just like
Warner, who held a coffee mug instead of a
sign.
Concerned Americans trying to find their
voices, and a way to channel their disgust.
For some, anger has now turned to action.
It is the kind of action that helped tea party favorite Sharron Angle capture the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in
Nevada, now challenging Majority Leader
Harry Reid. And that helped tea party darlings Raul Labrador in Idaho and Todd Lally
in Kentucky win their Republican congressional primaries. And that helped libertarian
favorite Rand Paul beat out a Republican establishment candidate in Kentucky’s Senate
primary.
In Yucca Valley, that action comes from
the likes of Bill Warner and a new Lincoln
Club.
In Bullhead City, Ariz., it comes in the
form of an ex-PR agent who runs the Republican women’s club and holds candidate
meet-and-greets to help get out the vote.
In Las Vegas, it’s an Internet marketer
and his friend, the blogger, working from a
rented condo to oust Reid and other incumbents.
These four were all in Searchlight that

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Bill Warner and his wife, Pat, were among
thousands who attended the tea party rally
this past March in Searchlight.

“It’s our way of doing what we
can do.”
BILL WARNER

California activist

Saturday in March. They’ve heard, time and
again, the characterizations in the news media, from some Democrats and, in certain
cases, from their own friends and relatives
— about how “those tea party-ers” are just
angry voters venting about economic hard
times, or they’re confused, uneducated and
easily influenced, or they’re extremists, or,
worst of all, they’re racists.
Months after Searchlight and other rallies, plenty of questions remain about just
what the tea party is, whether it can endure
and how much influence it will have on elections this year and in years to come. Part of
the answer is this: In communities across
the land, citizens-turned-activists are digging in in different ways to wield whatever
power and influence they’re able to muster
over this thing called democracy.
To hear what motivates them is to begin
to understand what’s going on in American

politics in 2010.
Really, in America itself.
• • •
Her accent seems better suited for an
episode of “The Real Housewives of New
York City” than the Chaparral Country Club
in Bullhead City. Yet here she is, Hildy
Angius, holding court with three men
who’ve just finished a round of golf in this
retirement community.
Her hand is filled with fliers for a mixer
sponsored by the Colorado River Republican
Women, the organization she heads. “It’s
more like a voter registration. A lot of elected people. It gives you a chance to go out
and yell at them if you have any problems or
questions,” she tells the golfers.
Turns out they have plenty they’d like to
yell about. Says one: “Why are we in such
dire straits?”
“Democrats!” his buddy exclaims. The
first fires back: “How about debt?”
Spotting an opening, Angius launches into
a speech: Don’t gripe, do something. Vote.
Volunteer. Knock on doors. Do what she’s
now doing: Whatever it takes to move the
Republican Party, and the government, to
the right.
Angius acknowledges she did little more
than complain until September 2008, when
she realized Barack Obama was likely to win
the presidency, bringing to office a liberal
agenda that would mean the kind of changes
Angius vehemently opposes. That fall, she
found the Colorado River Republican
Women — and an outlet for her dismay. This
past January, she was elected president of
the club. Soon after, she volunteered as a
precinct committee person.
At 51 and retired, she now spends her
days organizing events featuring Republican candidates, getting ready to go door-todoor to get voters to the polls for Arizona’s
August primary and writing newsletters
that help promote town hall meetings, conservative initiatives and tea party protests.
Besides Searchlight, she attended an earlier
gathering in Washington, D.C.
But the tea party didn’t shape Angius;
she’s not even a member of any local “chapters.” Her views developed long before,
growing up on Long Island, the youngest of
three children in, as she describes it, an upper-middle class Jewish — and politically
conservative — home.
Her father, Ed Linn, was a writer who
profiled everyone from baseball great
Sandy Koufax to Jack Kennedy. He instilled
in his daughter the core tenets of conservatism: hard work, self-reliance, small government and low taxes. He also taught her to
stand up for her beliefs, a talent that came
in handy for a girl who attended state university in Albany with mainly liberal
friends, worked in Manhattan doing public
relations and whose childhood chums, not to

See TEA, 4D

ay after day, night after night, the
massive oil spill in the Gulf dominates headlines. We learn about
the impact it is having on wildlife, on the
shoreline, on the fishing industry. We
look for ways to stop it as we would a
bleeding wound, but in truth stopping the
bleeding is only treating the symptoms.
We need to do more: We need to treat the
cause.
In businesses we focus on the bottom
line — a one dimensional scale that focuses solely on economics. Perhaps it’s
time to look at our organizations in another way,
to view our business
strategies through the
lens of the triple bottom
line, which encompasses
economic performance,
social responsibility and
environmental stewardship.
WEAR
The oil spill is a dramatic reminder that if we
don’t take these other factors into consideration, if we don’t integrate all of them
into our organizational structures, the
problems we’re facing now will continue
unabated. One hundred years ago when
resources were bountiful, this wasn’t as
big an issue. But with the growth in the
number of consumers throughout the
world, we are facing greater competition to meet our needs for scarce resources while at the same time seeing a
greater impact of the worldwide cumulative effects of human actions.
Thomas Friedman in his book “Hot,
Flat and Crowded” did a good job of explaining why this is vital in today’s
world. He talks about the convergence
of technology and events that allowed
India, China and other countries to become part of the global supply chain,
creating an explosion of wealth in the
world’s middle classes. This he calls
“the flattening of the world.”
When the crowding of the world and
the flattening of the world converged
around the year 2000, Friedman says,
the world went onto a track where global demand for energy, natural resources, and food all started to grow at a
much accelerated pace. We are under
pressure to seek oil and other resources
in places we have not gone before. With
those pressures come not only financial
costs but potentially greater costs to our
whole civilization.
The oil spill is effectively demonstrating the enormous impact of such actions. We can now look down from a
satellite view of the earth and see the
volume of oil that is escaping. And it’s
not going away. It is going to be in our
marine sediment and in our ecosystems,
and it will have long-term effects in ways

See SUSTAINABLE, 4D
Dr. John E. Wear is director of the
Center for the Environment at Catawba
College.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

This aerial photo shows a portion of the
oil-damaged shoreline of Barataria Bay,
La.., as crude continues to gush from the
massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

on’t take what you’re about to read
as an excuse not to vote.
If you’re eligible to vote in Tuesday’s runoff to determine the Democratic
candidate for the U.S. Senate and the third
Republican candidate for the Rowan County Board of Commissioners, then by all
means do so. Given a turnout that may
drop into the single digits, every vote will
count — potentially, your vote could count
even more than in the May 4 primary,
which had a turnout of 15 percent in
Rowan County. If you don’t vote, you’re
handing over the decision-making process
to the small number of people who will be
motivated enough to go to the polls.
With that caveat in mind, here’s a question to consider: Given the fraction of N.C.
voters who will be going to the polls Tuesday, is the current runoff system the best
mechanism for resolving contests in which
a candidate falls short of gaining the legally
required percentage of votes necessary to
advance to the general election?
Many people are saying no, including
some longtime political observers. In a recent article in the Charlotte Observer, political scientist Charles Bullock‚ the author of
a book on runoff elections, noted that
runoffs are largely a vestige of the days
when the South was solidly Democratic and
winning the Democratic primary was pretty
much a guarantee of winning in November.
Those days of Yellow Dog Dixie are long
gone, of course, and Bullock says the justification for runoffs has passed as well. Likewise, Michael Crowell, a professor at the
UNC School of Government, sees the runoff
as an idea that has outlived its time. “It seldom changes the outcome, and the winner
of the runoff usually has fewer votes than
most of the people who ran in the first primary.”
And this second electoral exercise doesn’t come cheap. It’s estimated that Tuesday’s statewide runoff will cost N.C. taxpayers about $5 million.
As for a runoff clarifying the desires of
the body politic, consider what happened
in the 2004 race for state school superintendent. June Atkinson won the Democratic runoff with 44,175 votes — about 90,000
votes less than her rival, Marshall Stewart,
had received in the initial primary.
Although North Carolina is among a
handful of Southern states that retain a
runoff system, reformers have pushed for
change. At one time, the threshold for a
winning candidate was 50 percent plus one
vote. In 1989, that was lowered to the current 40 percent, plus one. Some have suggested lowering the threshold even more
— or doing away with runoffs entirely.
More recently, the state has allowed some
municipalities to experiment with “instant
runoff voting,” a system in which voters
rank candidates by preference.
Voters haven’t rushed to embrace any of
these changes, but that’s not because
they’re enamored of the current system.
How well can it be working when the results represent a mere sliver of citizens?

Common sense

(Or uncommon wisdom, as the case may be)

“Complacency is a continuous struggle that we
all have to fight.”
— Jack Nicklaus
Moderately Confused

SALISBURY POST

t’s that time of year when
America celebrates the
donor we used to call
“Dad.”
Granted, many children
still have an in-house father,
but millions don’t. Some fathers have become alienated
through divorce. “Baby daddies” never were invited to
the commitment party. Still
others are
anonymous in
the truest sense
— mere DNA
donors who
made a deposit
and picked up a
check.
The latter
are the subject
a new study
KATHLEEN of
— “My Daddy’s
PARKER
Name Is Donor”
— about the offspring of sperm donors. Published by the Center for Marriage and Families, the report
is the first of its kind since artificial insemination and single motherhood came into
vogue. Finally, we have
enough grown children from
such arrangements to ask a
few questions and draw some
perhaps unwelcome conclusions.
Researchers assembled a
representative sample of 485
adults, ages 18-45, whose
mothers conceived them with
donated sperm. They compared their attitudes and
sense of self to a group of 562
young adults who were adopted as infants and 563 young
adults who were raised by
their biological parents.

How did we ever convince ourselves that fathers
aren’t essential?
By large percentages, the
sperm-donor children suffered more depression, delinquency and substance abuse
than children who were adopted or raised in a home with
their two natural parents. Almost two-thirds agreed that
“My sperm donor is half of
who I am.” Half were concerned that money was involved in their creation.
The only surprise in these
findings is that we never questioned: How could it be otherwise? And how did we ever
convince ourselves that fathers aren’t essential?
I tried to answer those
questions in my book, “Save
the Males,” a few years ago
and, in fact, interviewed
Karen Clark, one of the co-authors of this study (with Norval D. Glenn and Elizabeth
Marquardt). Clark found out
at age 18, when her non-biological dad died, that she had
been donor-conceived. It wasn’t until she had children of
her own that she began to
pursue her biological father’s
identity and subsequently became a donor offspring advocate.
One of my most passionate
interview subjects was a
British doctoral student, Tom
Ellis, who learned at 21 that
he and his brother had been
donor-conceived. Though
raised by two loving parents,

Ellis was devastated and embarked on a crusade for identity.
“It’s absolutely necessary
that I find out who he is (in
order) to have a normal existence as a human being,” he
told me. “That’s not negotiable in any way.”
As this recent study indicates, not all children suffer
from being donor offspring.
But enough do that we should
seriously reconsider the notion, now popularly embraced, that children can
adapt to any old family configuration.
The zeitgeist already is
richly endowed with myths
and fantasies that support
this essentially pro-feminist,
anti-male posture. Three
movies this year — “The
Switch,” “The Kids Are All
Right” and “The Back-up
Plan” — advance the moral
that donor kids turn out just
fine.
Except not all do.
It isn’t necessary to blame
mothers for their decision to
seek impregnation through
sperm donation to now wonder if we may have been mistaken in some of our assumptions. We are naturally sympathetic toward the woman,
who, having reached 40 and
despaired of finding Mr.
Right, turns to a sperm bank
as a last resort. Forfeiting

motherhood is a high price to
pay for unlucky timing.
But whether a woman has
a right to seek self-fulfillment may not be the most important question. More compelling is whether children
have a right to two parents —
a mother and a father.
Again, the zeitgeist is the
enemy of due diligence.
We’ve long ago given up the
idea that marriage should be
a prerequisite to pregnancy
or that single motherhood is
anything short of virtuous.
Social scientists, meanwhile,
have devoted considerable
energy toward proving that
fathers aren’t necessary, despite voluminous research
demonstrating that fatherless
children suffer a host of
pathologies. Though some
children do splendidly with
just a mother or just a father
or some other variation, the
overwhelming evidence confirms what we know in our
hearts.
Fathers are kind of nice to
have around.
The adult voices of donor
offspring are a welcome
counterbalance to an array of
cultural forces aimed at further marginalizing fathers. At
the very least, as this study
implores, it is time for a serious debate on the ethics,
meaning and practice of donor
conception.
Fatherhood is more than a
drop of DNA.
• • •
Kathleen Parker’s e-mail
address is kathleenparker
@washpost.com.

Mook’s Place/Mark Brincefield

Closing the books on another good year
T

he 2009-2010 school year
has come to a close.
More than 1,300 graduates walked across the stage
or stadium field to receive the
key to their future, a diploma.
The 2009-2010
term has been
full of challenges for the
Rowan-Salisbury School
System, as described in this
past year’s series of newspaper articles.
JUDY
Even with
these chalGRISSOM
lenges, our
school system had many accomplishments during this
past year that have made us
proud, such as:
• 19 out of 34 schools met
AYP standards last year (an
increase of 90% over the year
before).
• 56 out of 64 district targets were met – 87.5% last
year. This was the first time
that the school system exceeded 80% of the targets.
• The school district met
Adequate Yearly Progress requirements in two grade spans
last year. This was the first
year of two years to be removed from corrective action.
• 26 out of 35 schools met
expected or high growth last
year on the state ABC model.
• The district dropout rate
decreased from 5.54% to

3.34%.
• The district’s SAT scores
improved from 1434 to 1442.
• There was a reduction in
the number of suspensions and
discipline offenses.
• Even with a reduced
budget, there was little or no
effect on the classroom – the
school district was recognized
in the NCEA newsletter for
protecting teachers’ jobs.
• The number of 21st Century Model Classroom Teachers increased so that 23
schools have a program.
• The 21st Century iPod
Project at North Rowan was
expanded to all grade levels
with a $200,000 Golden Leaf
grant.
• 78 teachers received Literacy Training (Reading Foundations).
• Consultant Larry Bell
worked with teachers and students on high expectations,
power words and test taking
strategies.
• Carson High School continued its partnership with
China and received a visit
from a Chinese delegation.
• The district received a
$1.4 million grant to improve
students’ physical fitness.
• All staff completed the
training on the new teacher
evaluation instrument.
• All administrators completed training on participating in and conducting virtual
meetings. Several administrative and principals’ meetings

were held online, saving time
and travel funds.
• All administrators participated in an online book study,
Toy Box Leadership.
• The school district received an excellent audit report.
• Radio spots informing the
public about various aspects
of the school system were
broadcasted twice daily.
• The district received an
energy grant for school lighting and other energy conservation efforts.
• School bus inspection
scores significantly improved.
• The district transferred
all data from the old Student
Information System (SIMS) to
the new system, NCWise.
• Staff developed science
kits and provided training
through Horizons Unlimited to
students across the district.
• There were three site visits from other administrators
and teachers from across the
country to see technology being used in our classrooms.
• The district received
three state Blue Ribbon
Awards for communications
for our Annual Report, Middle
School Connections Brochure,
and Master Calendar.
• The district received the
2010 BioAchievement Award
in Education for our work in
the area of biotechnology at
Horizons Unlimited.
• Graduation Awareness
Week was expanded to include

activities with the business
community.
• The new Parent-Teacher
Magazine was published four
times this year at no cost to
the system.
• The Rowan County Early
College program was expanded and now serves both 9th
and 10th graders.
• The number of
Promethean Interactive White
Boards increased from 354
classrooms in 2008-2009 to 788
classrooms.
• Completed the first year
of Graduation Projects with
98.9% of seniors finishing the
projects and with 290 of our
community members assisting
with the reviews.
• Additional high school
academies were established at
Carson, South Rowan, and
West Rowan high schools.
• The district conducted an
online Parent Survey.
The list could continue on!
The Rowan-Salisbury School
System is a great school system and is only getting better.
We are facing even more challenges next year with a devastating budget. However, I
have no doubt that the wonderful employees in our school
system will continue to do
their very best each and every
day for our students to be successful. Until fall ...
• • •
Dr. Judy S. Grissom is superintendent for the Rowan-Salisbury School System.

INSIGHT

SALISBURY POST

SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 2010 • 3D

Terrorists
win if we
don’t watch
World Cup

LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR

Helen Thomas needs
to do her homework
Helen Thomas, a relic of the
White House press corps, spoke
within the bounds of her First
Amendment rights. While her
comments illustrate her lack of
studying history, her ignorance
and bias do not limit her constitutional rights; offering her view
on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis
in direct and undiplomatic terms
is no excuse for her forced retirement.
Her bitterness and vitriolic
misrepresentation of history illustrates a lack of the facts. She
must be permitted to voice her
opinion. As citizens and readers,
we have the right to either not
read her harangues or demand
she provide the facts. Since
there is no immediate danger,
she has a constitutional right to
be ignorant, biased and intolerant.
Her demand that Jews return
to their “homes” in Poland and
Germany suggests she did not
study history in high school or
college. The destruction of 6
million Jews, among the 20 million victims of the German onslaught in World War II, left a
remnant of survivors who returned to their historical and
biblical home.
As for the Jewish Arabs, a
category she neglected in her
verbal assaults, approximately
500,00 were forced to return to
Israel after 1948. They were expelled from the intolerant Arab
world without possessions or
money and were left emotionally distraught. In fact, Germany’s Hitler and Poland’s Pilsudski found the origins for the
yellow star, mandated for Jews,
in the Arab world.
History doesn’t seem to be
her forte. She demands that people who have been mistreated
and abused forget their experiences. Few people, German
Jews or Polish Jews, would have
left familiar surroundings and
traveled to a destitute home if
they had any choice. Memories
persist, especially if the conditions for them are repetitive.
We face a conflict of cultures
and civilizations. Finally, as a
mark of respect, one may judge
Arab intolerance by reading the
Koran, Hadith and studying the
Sharia.
— Dr. Arthur Steinberg
Salisbury

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ASSOCIATED PRESS

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, greets Afghan commandos during a Maymeeting at a base in Kabul, Afghanistan. McChrystal recently reported that deadlines have slipped because the war is
more difficult than anticipated.

Relearning a military lesson
U.S. struggles to fight two wars at the same time

W

ith today’s warfront headlines reading like the oracle
Yogi Berra’s deja vu all
over again — about the war going
worse than expected and Congress
growing apoplectic — there are
some lessons Washington must forever relearn.
Such as the lesson
I learned as a rookie
Washington correspondent from some
senators who were
so famous then that
they are famous
buildings today. The
late Senators
Richard Russell,
MARTIN
Everett Dirksen and
SCHRAM
Philip Hart are
known today as the names of the
Senate Office buildings today. Jacob Javits is New York City’s convention center, John McClellan is
Little Rock’s VA Hospital, and so
on.
But decades ago, they taught me
a valuable lesson about what fame
means — and doesn’t mean — in
Washington. Apparently we need to
re-learn it again, as once again confront a warzone where battles are
part combat and part hearts-andminds, as we prop up an ally who is
uncertain at best.
A Lesson Old and New: In 1967,
while reading the boring fine print
of McNamara’s new Defense Department posture statement, I discovered that the basic assumption
underlying his Vietnam wartime
budgeting was that America must
be able to fight two-and-a-half wars
simultaneously. Initially, I figured
that I was just new and uninformed
— but when I interviewed each

member of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees I was shocked to discover
they’d never heard about it either.
Russell, chairman of the Senate
Armed Services Committee, said
maybe it was a good idea and
maybe not. But he intended to look
into it. Senate Foreign Relations
Chairman J. William Fulbright, DArk., said he’d never heard about it
either — and thought it was preposterous to think America would
budget to fight two major wars and
a brushfire war simultaneously. So
it went, with Sens. Barry Goldwater of Armed Services, Javits of
Foreign Relations and all the rest.
The fact that McNamara’s twoand-a-half wars assumption was
news to those Senate luminaries is
what seemed like big news to me.
But there was an even larger lesson that those famous senators
taught me: Being famous in Washington was no guarantee of being
well informed. Indeed, fame may
well be an obstacle to being informed.
Which brings us to today. The
Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld administration led America into trying to
fight two wars simultaneously —
first in Afghanistan, and then in
Iraq before the Afghan war was
won. Today, U.S. troops must pay a
bloody price because Bush/Cheney/Rummy siphoned resources
from the Afghan war to fight the
Iraq war — enabling the Taliban to
revive and fortify in Afghanistan,
as al Qaeda’s leaders fled to tribal
Pakistan.
In both Afghanistan and Iraq,
we have wound up with problems
not unlike those America experi-

enced in Vietnam a half century
ago: We have waged military warfare against insurgents who could
attack, then melt back into the populous. And we have waged battles
for civilian hearts and minds,
much as we did with mixed results
in Vietnam. As in Vietnam, U.S.
generals now report that many
civilians aren’t enthusiastic about
being saved from a strong-arm
rule by U.S. and allied forces. And
as in Vietnam, citizens have grave
doubts, with due cause, about the
government leaders in Kabul and
(to a lesser degree) in Baghdad.
But while America’s homeland
faced no threat when the Vietnam
War ended in defeat, the same cannot be said about a de facto U.S.
and NATO defeat in Afghanistan.
Europe and the United States face
an uncertain but potentially grave
risk if the corrupt Kabul government falls and a Taliban regime
reestablishes a safe haven for al
Qaeda terrorists inside
Afghanistan.
Now this: America’s top general
in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, reports war deadlines
have slipped because the war is
more difficult than anticipated —
and the Afghan government failed
to provide trained forces as promised.
Only one deadline seems intact:
Sadly, the Vietnamization of
Afghanistan seems to be proceeding
on course.
• • •
Martin Schram writes political
analysis for Scripps Howard News
Service. E-mail:
martin.schram@gmail.com.

Reduce deficits, but keep nation’s teachers working
A

t long last, Congress is getting serious about containing
deficit spending, but it would
be ridiculous to show it by allowing
more than 100,000 teachers around
the country to lose their jobs.
Whether it settles on a proposed
$23 billion to prevent the layoffs or
some lesser number, Congress
needs to do it.
It should find offsets to keep aid
to states deficit-neutral — perhaps
tapping unspent 2009 stimulus money — but it shouldn’t
cut funds intended
for education reform.
In fact, ideally,
Congress ought to advance reform by conditioning the aid on a
commitment by all
states to tie teacher
evaluations to student achievement.
MORTON
have done it
KONDRACKE Twelve
already.
Republicans and
Democrats are united on little else
these days, yet action on school reform — after decades of talk —
seems to be one of them. But the effect of President George W. Bush’s
No Child Left Behind program and
President Barack Obama’s Race to
the Top will be diminished if teachers get laid off — especially young
teachers in high-poverty schools —
and if summer and after-school programs get canceled. That’s happening all over the country. Congress
prevented it last year with $40 billion in stimulus money — saving up

Some spending is just spending, and other spending
really is investment. Education reform is investment ...
to 300,000 education jobs — and offered $4.35 billion in competitive
grants that stimulated reform.
Now states actually are developing higher education standards and
assessments, lifting limits on charter schools, measuring teacher effectiveness and turning around lowperforming schools.
The recession is technically over,
but high unemployment and the real
estate slump have held down state
and local revenues, so education
budgets are getting slashed.
The Obama administration has
been saying 300,000 school personnel may lose their jobs. The Education Commission of the States estimates 256,000. Other experts put the
number at 100,000 to 150,000 classroom teachers.
Whichever is correct, it’s a serious blow to reform because in 15
states, the law requires layoffs to be
imposed by seniority. That’s also
mandated by many local district
contracts with teachers unions.
One of the country’s key education reformers, Jon Schnur, CEO of
New Leaders for New Schools, told
me that the effect on the reform
process will be “significant” if Congress lets layoffs proceed.
“It’s not going to end reform,” he
said, “but it would require even

stronger leadership from a great (local or state) leader to win support
for bold reforms from teachers and
the public — for instance, to smartly
renegotiate labor contracts — when
you’re cutting personnel.
“And you lose a lot of talent that
our kids need. Teachers in highpoverty areas will often be the first
to go, so our kids with the most
needs will often be the most vulnerable.“
If Members of Congress need a
reminder of what’s at stake in the
schools, here are two. The U.S. Census Bureau just reported that in
2009, 49 percent of births were to
non-white families. By 2020, more
than half the population will be “minority.“
In the meantime, only half of
African-American and Latino young
people graduate from high school on
time. The other half is headed for a
life of poverty and dependency.
The overall graduation rate is
only 70 percent. The U.S. used to
lead the world in high school completion. Now we rank 18th.
Second recent reminder: An Annie E. Casey Foundation analysis
just showed that 67 percent of
fourth-graders — and more than 80
percent of black and Hispanic children — scored “below proficient“ on

2009 national reading tests; 33 percent — and half of minority kids —
were “below basic.“
And that tracks with tests showing that 15-year-olds rank 25th in
math, 21st in science, 15th in reading literacy and 24th in problemsolving among 30 industrialized nations that the U.S. competes with.
To keep teachers working, Sen.
Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and Reps.
George Miller, D-Calif., and David
Obey, D-Wis., proposed adding $23
billion to this year’s AfghanistanIraq war supplemental appropriation. They failed, owing to legitimate
concern over a $1.4 trillion deficit
for this year and the prospect of $1
trillion a year for the next decade.
Obama has appealed for $50 billion in aid to the states, including
Medicaid assistance and funds to
keep teachers and police employed.
The president’s letter to Congress
was greeted coldly, with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md.,
commenting that Congress is afflicted with “spending fatigue.“
But some cuts make sense and others don’t. Some spending is just
spending, and other spending really
is investment. Education reform is
an investment in future productivity. In fact, without it, America is destined to be second rate. So it’s time
for Congress to do what it’s hired to
do: set priorities. Keeping teachers
working should be close to Job One.
• • •
Morton Kondracke is executive editor of Roll Call, the newspaper of
Capitol Hill.

ere’s another reason
Americans should
embrace soccer:
Anti-Western and anti-U.S.
Islamic radicals are threatening to kill anybody caught
watching the World Cup, a
special point of pride in
Africa because it’s the first
time the continent has hosted the games.
An organization calling
itself al-Shabaab, apparently deciding that the hapless
people of the
violent and
chaotic failed
nation of Somalia aren’t
miserable
enough, has
decreed that
both playing
soccer and
watching it on
DALE
are un-IsMCFEATTERS TV
lamic.
Several
dozen people have already
been jailed for the crime of
watching the World Cup in
their own homes in areas
controlled by al-Shabaab
and an allied organization,
Hisbul Islam. In 2006, Islamic gunmen killed a man
and a teenage girl for refusing to turn off a GermanyItaly Cup match.
In areas of the capital,
Mogadishu, controlled by
the government, people are
free — or as free as anyone
gets in Somalia — to watch
the World Cup. The soccercrazy Somalians have been
buying up satellite dishes
and power boosters and hiring shade-tree electricians
to hook them up for the
games. One Somali channel
broadcasts the matches
from the safety of the airport, which is held by
African Union peacekeepers. And several Arab channels, taking pity on the soccer-deprived Somalis, are
beaming the games into the
country.
One cinema in the government-controlled part of
the capital carries the
World Cup to packed houses
along with its Hollywood
and Bollywood movies from
10 a.m. to midnight. If alShabaab should lay hands on
the rest of the capital, the
Dhamuke Cinema is probably not long for the world
because, in addition to outlawing soccer, the radicals
also outlawed movies. It’s a
ban they enforced in their
own areas by rolling hand
grenades into theater audiences. Oh, and the Dhamuke
Cinema commits one other
unspeakable sin — it allows
men and women to sit together.
Al-Shabaab’s leaders say
they banned soccer and especially the World Cup because they distracted its
young male adherents from
the task of jihad. Others say
the problem was that rather
than going off to the front to
fight government forces,
the youngsters were sneaking off to watch the games.
But al-Shabaab, with its
obsessive interest in other
people’s martyrdom, is one
of those joyless organizations that ban lots of things
— music, dancing, mustaches, school bells (too
much like church bells), coeducation, large social gatherings.
In the town of Merca, the
local al-Shabaab decided
that gold and silver dental
fillings were un-Islamically
decorative and went around
yanking out teeth. AlShabaab gunmen also go
around whipping women
they suspect of wearing a
bra, bras being un-Islamic
because they are “deceptive.”
If there were such a
thing as a free and honest
vote in Somalia, the unpopular al-Shabaab would be
gone tomorrow, but they
have what counts — AK-47s.
But it’s unsettling and a little sad that the uneducated
and unworldly men who run
al-Shabaab feel that their
religion is threatened by the
simple act of running
around a field kicking a ball.
• • •
Dale McFeatters writes
columns and editorials for
Scripps Howard News Service.

CONTINUED

4D • SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 2010

SUSTAINABLE
FROM 1D

we cannot predict. It is going
to affect the health of our
economies. It is going to impact people in ways that
damage their capacity to
meet their own needs.
This is an object lesson in
why we need to shift toward
sustainability in the way we
operate our businesses and
communities. So, how do we
make that shift? In fact,
what is sustainability? It
refers to meeting our own
needs without compromising the capacity of future
generations to meet their
needs.
In truth, while it is not
something that is easily
achievable, it is something
that we should all go well
beyond. It would be nice if
we really lived and ran our
businesses in a way that
was regenerative — that actually made the world a
healthier and better place to
live. But step one is to get
businesses, organizations
and communities to make
that shift to more sustainable approaches to the way
we exist on this earth.
Our industrial revolution
propelled us in ways that
brought about many things
we all enjoy and appreciate.
But, it has come at a cost —
a cost that future generations are going to have to
deal with.
So where do you start?
Well, often, we start at the
wrong level. We start at the
level dealing with waste and
recycling rather than at the
top where management decisions are actually made.
We need to begin at a level
where it is integrated into
every decision we make.
OK, so you read this and
the first thing you think is,
“This is fine and good, but
what’s the cost?”
Many think that during
these difficult economic
times we simply cannot
make these kinds of shifts.
But wait. This is exactly the
time to do it. The reason is
this: The first step in moving a business, organization
or community toward sustainability is to think strategically.
Thinking strategically
means incorporating things
like resource use directly
into our planning efforts.
By understanding our relationship to the world around
us, we can begin to see
where we fit into this picture.
A number of Fortune 500
companies have now hired
sustainability coordinators,
often at top levels, to integrate a new kind of thinking
into their businesses. They
publish sustainability reports, and they do it because they know that by
paying attention to all these
issues, they are more competitive, more profitable
and in a better position in
the future to adapt to a rapidly changing world. You
may be interested to know
that we are beginning to see
this in local government and
area businesses. For example, Food Lion recently
hired a sustainability coordinator.
On our own Catawba College campus in Salisbury,
we instituted our sustainable business and community development degree a
few years ago because we
knew this was the wave of
the future. It is designed for
students who want to be
business professionals who
take a “green” approach in
business practices. It offers
both training in business
management and an understanding of the mechanisms
of organization change
needed to make businesses
function in ways that focus
on that triple bottom line.
As sustainability expert
Darcy Hitchcock noted in
the workshops we helped
organize at the center on
June 9 and at the Cabarrus
Regional Chamber of Commerce office June 10, embracing sustainable business
practices can help organizations prosper. Shifting from
the single to the triple bottom line is not about sacrifice. It’s about competing
and succeeding in a fastchanging world.

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the Washoe County Republican Party in Reno. The leaders, he says,
eventually rejected his work because it wasn’t “run through their
FROM 1D
process.”
mention a lot of relatives, are mostOdom went from apolitical to
ly Democrats.
antiestablishment activist.
What finally pushed Angius to
He launched his website anyaction was Obama, and it infuriates way, then started a conservative
her when some suggest race is
political action committee. Soon, he
somehow the motivation. For her, it was working for conservative cancomes down to the divergent idedidates who didn’t have the party’s
ologies of left vs. right, and a feelbacking.
ing that American conservatives
By 2006, Odom had a blog and
have been marginalized for years.
was organizing citizens to “slam”
Ask her to explain, and she talks Nevada lawmakers with phone
about a feeling that something is
calls over legislation they opposed.
just “wrong.”
By 2008, he had moved to Chicago
“This is not the direction that the and was using his Internet skills to
country is supposed to be going,”
reach out to activists on behalf of
she says, citing financial bailouts,
the Sam Adams Alliance, a nonprofthe stimulus bill, health care, immi- it advancing free-market princigration. “Things are changing at
ples.
warp speed in a way that’s not goFinally, in February 2009, Odom,
ing to be good.”
like so many others, was watching
And so, she says, people are get- when CNBC reporter Rick Santelli
ting more involved.
stood on the floor of the Chicago
She herself recently attended a
Board of Trade, ranting about stimRepublican National Committee
ulus money and the mortgage crisis
program in Phoenix that teaches
and calling on capitalists to conadvocates to get the party’s mesverge at Lake Michigan for a
sage out. It was called, “Say It
“Chicago tea party.”
Loud.”
In 24 hours, Odom had a website
Now, when folks around town
up to help organize just that, and
ask her whom she plans to support
his tea party career took off.
in the GOP Senate primary on Aug.
The culmination of all of that is
24, she first explains that her views the new political action committee
are her own (her club doesn’t enhe heads, Liberty First, and its offdorse candidates) and then she tells shoots, TaxDayTeaParty.com and
them, in all likelihood, Sen. John
The Patriot Caucus, which he deMcCain’s more conservative opposcribes as a coalition of tea party
nent, J.D. Hayworth.
organizers who want to “engage the
“I want McCain to lose for the
movement in electoral activism.”
symbolism,” says Angius. “He’s
Odom spends his days in front of
like the ring on the merry-goa computer in that Las Vegas condo
round. If we can get that, the tea
war room, under a banner that
parties have won.”
reads “Silent Majority No More!”,
This is how momentum — a
firing off Tweets, text messages,
“movement,” even — can grow.
phone calls and e-mails to tens of
One person, on the ground, talking
thousands of people.
to others, inspiring action and influAcross from Odom is Steve Foencing votes.
ley, a 37-year-old, laid-off mortgage
manager who writes the conserva• • •
tive blog, “The Minority Report.”
On a wall is a whiteboard with a list
When those like Angius and
of U.S. House and Senate races, and
Warner ponder how to go from exthe many incumbents, they’re tarasperated to engaged, Eric Odom
geting.
stands at the ready with an e-mail
After dispatching a flurry of
or a Tweet — and an answer.
fundraising e-mails on behalf of
This past March, Odom picked
Charles Djou in Hawaii, Liberty
up his life in Chicago, put on hold a First had enough money to buy racareer as an Internet consultant
dio ads and pay bloggers to help
and moved with his fiancee and a
Djou become the first Republican
blogger friend into a three-bedin nearly 20 years to win a congresroom apartment a few miles from
sional seat from his state.
the Las Vegas Strip.
Together, Odom and Foley someThere, in a dining space turned
times make hundreds of calls in a
“war room,” the 30-year-old helps
day to draw folks out to local meetdirect the assault that is feeding
ings to talk about working to get
the nation’s antiestablishment fren- others involved. Or they’ll hold
zy.
training sessions to teach grassSome might call him the father
roots activists. They’ve enlisted
of the tea party. He prefers the
statewide coordinators in places
term “organizer.”
like Arizona, Colorado, New MexiSix years ago, Odom was a colco, Illinois and New Hampshire.
lege student in Reno, Nev., study“What is our ultimate goal?”
ing graphic communications and
says Odom. “To make sure that
quickly becoming an expert in the
we’re represented by people who
art of using the Internet to commu- are looking out for our rights and
nicate.
upholding the Constitution. ... And,
He wasn’t politically involved. In if they don’t, to make sure we have
fact, he says he didn’t even vote.
infrastructure to really take them
Then Odom got his first real job, out rather than have these thugs
and noticed how much of his paythat are in there for 30, 40 years.”
check went to taxes. Illegal immigration caught his attention.
• • •
It was 2004, and George W. Bush
was running for re-election. Odom
Yucca Valley, a desert town of
decided to try to get involved by of- about 20,000, survives because of
fering to revamp the website for
the places surrounding it, the peo-

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A tea party supporter hoists his banner at the rally in Searchlight, Nev.

This is how momentum — a ‘movement,’ even — can
grow. One person, on the ground, talking to others,
inspiring action and influencing votes.
ple they draw and the trickle-down
jobs they create. There are new installations going up at the Marine
base in nearby Twentynine Palms;
Joshua Tree National Park, and the
visitors it draws; houses that went
up over the years for retirees and
those who live in Yucca Valley but
work elsewhere.
Bill Warner came to this place as
a young man of 26, with his wife,
Pat, and a 9-month-old daughter.
Fresh out of the Navy, he went to
work for a civil engineering firm,
purchased a house on the GI bill
and then bought the engineering
business and built it into a solid
venture.
A pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps capitalist, he rode the ups
and downs of his community. But
he now sees the life he’s built and
the future of his daughter and
grandson being threatened by “taxand-spend” leaders who can’t do as
he has always believed: Live within
your means. As he said in Searchlight: “I’m concerned about the
ability of the country to survive.”
Having lived all his life in California — today, the most debt-ridden state — Warner has seen what
severe budget deficits can do. He’s
experienced the tax hikes and cuts
to services, and now he fears the
federal government is following in
his home state’s footsteps.
And, so, he took his motorhome
to Searchlight to show his concern.
And when the mayor of Yucca Valley called earlier this year, proposing they launch a Lincoln Club to
help raise money to support conser-

vative candidates, Warner didn’t
hesitate. He helped recruit, mailed
out fliers for their first meeting in
April and stood before the 80 or so
souls who showed up and tried to
explain what his club hoped to do:
“It takes action. We can all complain to each other, but we’ve got to
act on our feelings.”
Several weeks back, the Lincoln
Club board members gathered for
their regular meeting and soon
were discussing California’s budget
crisis, Arizona’s immigration law
and the overall state of the union.
Warner and the mayor are joined
on the board by an insurance man,
a bank vice president, a former
mayor of Twentynine Palms, a
school board trustee and an optometrist.
“Do you want to see why people
are upset?” asked the bank VP, Paul
Hoffman. He held up his cell phone
to show off a picture making the
rounds in viral e-mails. It’s of a sign
somewhere that reads: “‘Change’
(equals) More Debt, More Taxes,
More Welfare, More Regulation,
More Government, More Wasteful
spending, MORE CORRUPTION.
Thanks Mr. President.”
As the chuckles subsided, Warner handed out sandwiches and the
group got down to business. They
had endorsements to review for
California races, campaign contributions to consider, recruitment.
They wanted, quite simply, to
keep acting in their own way on the
anger they feel.
To do, as Warner likes to say,
what they can do.

Summer classes
at the Farm at
Weathers Creek
The Farm at Weathers Creek will offer
summer workshop sessions with two awardwinning writers, Pamela Duncan and Zelda
Lockhart, on July 10 and Aug. 7.
Asheville native Duncan’s session on Saturday, July 10, will be “Believable Fiction”
and participants will work on the basics of
creative writing from flash fiction to
screenplays.
Duncan’s first novel, “Moon Women,”
was a Southeastern Booksellers Association
(now Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance) Award Finalist, and her second novel, “Plant Life,” won the 2003 Sir Walter
Raleigh Award for Fiction. She also received the 2007 James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South, awarded
by the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
Her third novel, “The Big Beautiful,”
was published in March 2007. She lives in
Cullowhee and teaches creative writing at
Western Carolina University.
Lockhart is author of the award-winning
novels “Fifth Born” and “Cold Running
Creek.” She is the 2010 Piedmont Laureate
for Literature in North Carolina, and her
third novel, “Fifth Born II: The Hundredth
Turtle,” will be released this month.
Lockhart’s session will be “Write It &
Publish It.” This workshop provides a practical plan to turn that book project into a reality and offers unconventional truths
about:
• Getting it written and finished;
• Getting a reputable agent;
• Getting a reputable press;
• Guidance and priceless information on
self-publishing.
Her other works of fiction, poetry and
essays can be found in a variety of anthologies, journals and magazines. Lockhart
lives in Durham and lectures and facilitates
a variety of workshops that empower adults
and children to self-define through writing.
The sessions offer a one-day get away to
a farm located between Cleveland and
Mooresville. The workshops offer a way to
expand career horizons.
The Farm at Weathers Creek has scenic
views from almost every window of the log
home on the property. Owned by the Campbell family, the house was built from logs
salvaged from their mother’s home place in
Mount Ulla.
The Writers’ Series grew out of talks between area writer/editor Ann Wicker, photographer and writer Susan Campbell and
marketing and sales specialist Cindy Campbell.
Sessions are $75 each. All sessions include a homemade lunch. Deadlines for registration for the July session is July 2; July
30 for the Aug. 7 session. Registration for
each is limited to 14 people. Discounts are
offered if you sign up for more than one
session.
Gift certificates are available. All sessions will start promptly at 10 a.m. and end
at 3 p.m. For a registration form, directions
and other information, go to our website,
www.weatherscreek.net/.

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SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 2010 • 5D

SALISBURY POST

Book Expo: Lots of authors, lots of waiting
Deal Safrit of Literary Bookpost attended the BookExpo
America trade show in New York
City in May. This is his account
of the show.
BookExpo America is the
largest book industry trade
show in North America, and
one of the largest industry
shows in the
world, perhaps
superceded only
by the Frankfort
Book Fair.
BookExpo
America 2010
was my fifth
BEA show in six
years, as I
skipped the
DEAL
West Coast show
SAFRIT
several years
ago. This year’s show was
somewhat muted compared to
previous shows due to the economy. The show lasted two
days, compared to the previous
three, and covered only one
floor instead of the entire
building.
This led to crowding and
scheduling difficulties on my
part, partly due to the show
structure, but also because, for
the first time, I was at the show
alone. In years past, my wife
Sheila Brownlow has always accompanied me.
BEA attracts independent
and chain booksellers from
around the continent, as well as
librarians and any others who
are book industry related.
There are hundreds of authors,
ranging from debut small press
authors who few of us will ever
hear about to the big guns in
the industry. There are thousands of books available as
giveaways, although this year
there were definitely fewer.
Publishers are represented
in full force with sales reps, account reps and their authors
with their entourages.
Entire separate areas are set
up for foreign language books,
children’s books and book sidelines. Various organizations,
such as the Mystery Writers of
America, the Horror Writers of
American, the Romance Writers of America, etc. have their
own designated areas.
To “work” the Book Expo,
one has to have a plan, and that
I went in with. I knew exactly
which authors I wanted to see,
where they would be, and what
time they would be there. In between visiting with “my” authors, I would visit my publisher representatives or just
knock around the floor making
serendipitous discoveries.

(Nelson) Demille is as
gracious as ever,
thankful for every
reader and bookseller.
First off, though, I headed
over to the W.W. Norton booth
to see my rep Kristen. After
Norton, I run by the Horror
Writer’s area to visit with
Alexandra Sokoloff, one of
“our” authors who always
makes a point of coming by the
Bookpost when she has a new
book out. Her new title, “Book
of Shadows,” just came out, and
I wanted to make certain she
was going to drop in to see us.
Wednesday is a pretty laidback day, author-wise, for me,
so I sort of wander over and get
in a short line for Chris Hedges,
who is signing copies of “Empire of Illusion.” The line is
short enough we actually have a
chance to talk politics for a few
minutes, and we pleasantly are
not interrupted, as all of this is
taking place in the Perseus Distribution booth, a much calmer
place than the official autograph tables, which are like cattle calls much of the time.

Hello, Turow

I then migrate over to Scott
Turow, where I am on assignment to get a signed copy of
“Innocent” for Sheila. My timing is perfect — his line at the
Grand Central booth has
shrunk to nothing and again, I
get a little chance to chat.
Wednesday lunch is provided
by the American Bookseller’s
Association, of which Literary
Bookpost has been a member
since we opened in 1998. ABA is
the trade association for independent booksellers in North
America. The highlight of the
convention is this Celebration
of Bookselling Luncheon, where
the annual IndieChoice Awards
are presented and each table
has a candidate author. I am
honored to sit at Table 1, whose
author is Jerry Pinkney, who
will win the best children’s illustrated award with “The Lion
and the Mouse.”
The author of more than 100
books, Pinkney is charming and
delightful, and kindly signs a
copy of his award-winning book
to daughter Daphne, busy in
Salisbury running the Bookpost
in my absence.
I make one of only two visits
to the cattle call autograph
lines for a Lee Child “61 Hours”
for Sheila. Even though Sheila

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didn’t ask for it, I am early and
the wait isn’t bad, giving me
the chance to get to Nelson Demille and a copy of “Lion,”
which is on Sheila’s list. Despite a vast and growing line,
Demille is as gracious as ever,
thankful for every reader and
bookseller. Few big-name authors have his class.
At the same time, Alex Kershaw is signing his forthcoming
book, “The Envoy,” a non-fiction
work about Raoul Wallenberg,
and I want to get a copy signed
for Rachel Oestreicher. And
surprise, there is no line, so we
get to talk for a while about both
his work and Rachel’s, and further, I get a second copy of the
book signed to me, a rarity in
this day and age.
Finally, in two steps, I dash
over to the Little Brown booth
for Emma Donoghue’s new
book, “Room” and to tell her
we have a book group who has
picked her early book, “Slammerkin,” for next year. Then
down to Algonquin’s booth
where I visit with Jonathan
Evison, whose new book, “West
of Here,” looks more and more
like a big winner.
My rep for Algonquin, Frazer Dobson, who is also part
owner of Park Road Books in
Charlotte, was telling me earlier how much he thought of
“West of Here,” and, after talking to Evison and getting a
signed copy, I have to agree
with Frazer, even without reading more than the cover. It will
go into my “read really soon”
stack once I get home.
Thursday on the floor begins
with some excitement. I’m at
the Norton booth, in a fairly
slow-moving line to see Mary
Roach, author of the books
“Stiff,” “Bonk” and “Spook,” to
have her sign “Packing for
Mars” for me.
Michael Connelly comes by
and begins talking to the lady
beside me in line. Even though
I am supposed to see him later
for an autographed book, this is
as close as I will get this show;
when I do queue up in his line
later, he will run out of books
just as I get in sight of him.
But, while waiting, my Norton rep Kristen rushes up to
tell me Literary Bookpost is the
talk of the show. Apparently,
one of the book industry websites has picked up on the arti-

cle Hugh Fisher wrote in the
Salisbury Post about Emily Weinstein painting the cats in the
bookstore, and we are all quite
the buzz.
After finally getting up to
see Roach, I find out the reason
for the slow line is she wants to
spend several minutes with
each person, even though Norton is encouraging her to move
on. She definitely has her own
ideas about how to treat attendees, especially the booksellers; she knows the booksellers make or break an author. From this point, and for
the next hour, I simply wander
the floor of the show.

On the horizon

At 1:30 I go into rush mode,
going for my second “cattle
call” author for Sheila, Rob
Sheffield, who is signing
“Talking to Girls about Duran
Duran.” Despite being a respected journalist and author,
Sheffield looks like he is about
12 in person. He is an extremely talented conversationalist,
and I think he would have
talked to me for a while, but the
line is growing behind me. I
step over to the line beside me,
where there is not a soul waiting, and get Bob Marley’s son
Ky-Mani to sign a copy of his
book, “Dear Dad” for Daphne.
At this point I dash across
the floor for my disappointment with Michael Connelly
(sorry Sheila, but how many
books signed “MC” does one
need?) and then jump into a
growing line at the Random
House booth for David Lipsky.
He is signing copies of his
great book on the late David
Foster Wallace, “Although of
Course You End Up Becoming
Yourself.” Lipsky is extremely
personable, and wants to talk
extensively with each person
coming up to him, which is
pretty funny considering a
Random House handler is going
down the line telling people to
get his signature and move on.
Also signing at this time in
Joseph Skibell, way over in the
Algonquin booth, so I bee-line
over there. Skibell is signing
“A Curable Romantic,” which
sounds really good. He is also
the author of a book that has
been out of print for several
years, “A Blessing on the
Moon,” which is one of my alltime favorites. I’m thrilled
when Skibell tells me Algonquin is going to bring “Blessing” back into print.
And that was how I spent my
May working vacation.

Emerging author visits Bookpost on Saturday
Maryann McFadden will be at Literary
Bookpost June 26 for a reception and book
signing of her novel, “So Happy Together.”
The saga of a 40-something woman who
thinks she’s about to live her dreams, the book
presents an emotional thrill ride for its heroine, Claire Noble.
“So Happy Together,” a trade paperback,
includes a reading group guide with questions
to spark discussion, and an excerpt from her
first novel, “The Richest Season.”
The novel looks at four generations in
Claire’s family — her mother, her daughter
and her daughter’s surprise. Something about
the heroine’s name suggests the road will be
steep and rough.
McFadden starts with a hot-button topic
— caring for aging parents, and keeps the
challenges coming — not only has Claire’s
mother recently broken her hip, her father
has just been diagnosed with Parkinson’s.
Claire, long since parted from her daughter Amy’s father, has found a new love and is
looking forward to her fall wedding — after
she goes to Cape Cod to pursue her dream of
becoming a photographer.

She has set her parents up at a senior center to keep them busy during the day; she has
found someone to rent her house; she has
packed her bags, when her estranged daughter shows up.
Absent for a year and a half, Amy comes
back as sullen as she left, and just as communicative. Claire is not going to change her
plans for anyone, and she’s ready to walk out
the door when the catastrophe happens.
And still, she and Amy can’t talk.
When she gets back to her house much later, she finds her renter ensconced and uncooperative. They had a deal, he says, and he’s
not moving out.
Among the further problems that pop up
almost simultaneously: Claire’s father falls
and goes into the hospital; her tenant makes
a deal with her; her daughter make a decision
then changes her mind; her fiancee, Rick, is
pretty upset by all the recent developments.
Among their dreams was a move to Arizona, where Rick can play golf all day and
Claire can pursue her photography.
Well, what’s a novel without a few obstacles thrown in? McFadden pushes the enve-

lope here as one
disaster after
another piles
on. It could turn
some readers
off.
But McFadden, on her
website, says
the idea came
from her own
experience in
the sandwich
generation —
adults caring
for aging parents and growing children at the same time.
This novel is an Indie Next Pick, recommended by independent booksellers. Her first
novel, another story of a woman trying to find
herself, was also an Indie Next Pick.
McFadden has a Book Club Special
planned for her 1:30-3:30 p.m. appearance
here. Book club members who come to this
event can enter a drawing to win six copies
of “So Happy Together” for their book club.

Satisfy your hunger for soccer knowledge at the library
BY EDWARD HIRST

Rowan Public Library

Goal! With the start last week
of World Cup 2010, the world’s
most popular sport again takes
center stage.
The following books and others are available at Rowan Public Library if you would like to
understand more about the sport
of soccer or you are interested in
coaching future soccer stars.
As participation in youth soccer continues to grow, so does the
need for youth soccer coaches.
Whether you’re a parent new to
coaching or an experienced
youth soccer coach, “Coaching
Youth Soccer” is your handbook
for a successful season. This
book is ideal for coaches of players ages 14 and under and contains more than 30 age-specific
coaching tips that are sure to
jump-start your practices.
“Complete Conditioning for
Soccer” shows you how to
achieve higher performance
goals and more. In this special
book and DVD package,

renowned soccer strength and
conditioning coach Greg Gatz
provides a comprehensive training regime that builds players’
physical abilities as well as the
soccer-specific skills required for
dribbling, tackling, passing, heading, shooting and goalkeeping.
The book “Soccer Skills &
Drills” is a comprehensive instructional guide for players and
coaches alike. Learn to dribble,
receive, pass, shoot, head, tackle and guard the goal with guidance from the National Soccer
Coaches Association of America,
the top coaches’ organization in
the United States. Dozens of photographs and diagrams are provided to help you visualize the
technical instruction, while the
application of each skill is described from both tactical and
positional perspectives.
“Teaching Soccer Fundamentals” explains how to maximize
young athletes’ learning of essential techniques and tactics
through fun and efficient practice sessions. Including helpful
photographs and illustrations as

well as instructions that are easy
to understand and apply, this
book shares more than 30 years
of soccer coaching experience.
In “Premier Soccer,” Michael
Parker, teaches every key technique and tactic, with accompanying drills and special tips.
“Premier Soccer” tackles the
skills and traits necessary for
each position on the field, both
offensively and defensively, as
well as systems, set plays,
restarts and practice drills.
In the book “A Home on the
Field,” author Paul Cuadros went
to Siler City to investigate the
changes brought about by Latinos arriving to work in smalltown poultry-processing plants.
He became part of the story when
he lobbied Jordan-Matthews
High School to create a team for
its soccer-loving Latino youth.
Three seasons later, he had
coached the Jets to a state championship. The engaging tale of the
team’s climb to the top also provides a lens through which to view
the challenges of assimilation.
Score a goal by visiting Rowan

Public Library this summer for
these books and more .
Computer classes: Classes are
free. Sessions are approximately 90 minutes. Class size is limited and on a first-come, firstserve basis. Dates and times at
all locations are subject to
change without notice.
Headquarters — Monday, 7
p.m., Intermediate Excel; June
29, 1:30 p.m., Beginners Internet.
South — June 28, 7 p.m., Fun
With Flickr.
Children’s program: This summer, the library invites kids to
Make a Splash and join the library for programs and great
reads. Weekly programs have begun and run until July 29 .
Calling all Teens: Make Waves
@ Rowan Public Library. Running
through July 29, all rising sixthgraders to 12th- graders may participate in a variety of events.
Programs will be on Mondays
from 5:30-7 p.m. at East Branch
in Rockwell; Tuesdays, 5:30-7
p.m. at headquarters; Thursdays,
3:30-5 p.m. at South Rowan Regional in China Grove.

SALISBURY POST

INSIGHT

SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 2010 • 6D

Lessons from a failed Cold War spy mission
BY ROBERT BURNS

nounced that Downey and Fecteau
had been convicted of espionage
and sentenced — Fecteau for 20
ASHINGTON — Detail by
years, Downey for life — neither
painful detail, the CIA is
the CIA nor the men’s families
coming to grips with one of
knew their fate. The families rethe most devastating episodes in
ceived letters in December 1953
its history, a botched cloak-andsaying the two men were “predagger flight into China that stole
sumed dead.”
two decades of freedom from a
The CIA concocted a cover stopair of fresh-faced American operry, telling the families that the
atives and cost the lives of their
four had gone missing on a routine
two pilots.
commercial flight from Korea to
In opening up about the 1952 deJapan on Dec. 3, four days after
bacle, the CIA is finding ways to
the shootdown.
use it as a teaching tool. Mistakes
After China announced that
of the past can serve as cautionary
Downey and Fecteau were being
tales for today’s spies and paramilheld as spies, Washington publicly
itary officers taking on al-Qaida
denied it, claiming they were civiland other terrorist targets.
ian employees of the Army.
At the center of the story are
China did not mention Snoddy
two eager CIA paramilitary offiand Schwartz until 1975, when officers on their first overseas assigncials told President Gerald R. Ford
ment, John T. Downey of New
the missing pilots had been found
Britain, Conn., and Richard G.
dead and “badly scorched” at the
Fecteau, of Lynn, Mass., whose
crash site, and that it would be implane was shot from the night sky
possible to locate their remains.
in a Chinese ambush.
Fecteau was released by China
The mission was quickly smothin December 1971 and Downey in
ered in U.S. government denials,
March 1973, shortly after PresiIn this Dec. 15, 1971 file photo, CIA paramilitary officer Richard G. Fecteau relaxes at the Valley Forge Army dent Richard Nixon publicly acsealed in official secrecy and conHospital in Phoenixville, Pa., shortly after his release by China.
signed to the darkest corner of the
knowledged Downey’s CIA connecspy agency’s vault of unpleasant
tion.
affairs.
On Nov. 29, 1952, above the
Both said after their return that
Downey was the youngest of the
foothills of the Changbai mounto cope with their confinement
four. At 22, with one year of CIA
tains, Downey and Fecteau flew
they stuck strictly to a daily schedservice, he was destined to spend
into Chinese air space in an unule.
the next 20 years, three months
armed C-47 Skytrain. They
Downey, for example, said he
and 14 days in Chinese prisons. His
planned to swoop low over a renwould rise each morning and begin
CIA partner, Fecteau, was 25. He
dezvous point marked with three
a series of activities in his cell: calwas behind bars for 19 years and
small bonfires and use a tail hook
isthenics, cleaning, eating, reading,
14 days.
to pick up a Chinese agent off the
listening to the radio and reviewBoth survived. Their pilots,
ground without landing. Downey
ing an occasional package of letRobert C. Snoddy, 31, a native of
was to reel in the agent with a
ters, books and magazines. Fecteau
Roseburg, Ore., and 29-year-old
winch aboard the plane.
had a similar approach but varied
Norman A. Schwartz of Louisville,
As they descended, the sky sud- his routine by the day of the week.
Ky., did not.
denly exploded in bursts of gunRemarkably, once home they reBits and pieces of the story surfire. It was a Chinese ambush. The sumed normal lives. Downey
faced over the years. But the lid
agent had betrayed the Ameriearned a law degree from Harvard
was largely intact until a series of
cans, luring them by promising to and became a judge. Fecteau redisclosures — some required of
provide important documents
turned to his alma mater, Boston
the CIA, some not — revealed a
from a dissident leader.
University, as assistant athletic ditale of tragedy, miscalculation,
After the C-47 slammed
rector.
misery and personal triumph, as
through a grove of trees, the cockThe pilots, Snoddy and
well as the agency’s misplaced
pit burst into flames and skidded
Schwartz, were not CIA officers
confidence it could manipulate
to a halt near the village of Sanbut flew missions as employees of
events in China.
dao.
Civil Air Transport, an airline seThree years ago, the CIA deDowney and Fecteau, stunned
cretly purchased by the CIA in late
classified an internal history of the
and bruised but alive, were cap1949 to support its covert operaaffair. Now it’s hired a filmmaker
tured on the spot. They were
tions in East Asia.
to produce an hourlong documenhauled off to prison — first in the
In June 2004 a Pentagon search
tary. The CIA does not plan to recity of Mukden, then in Beijing — team, with authorization by China,
lease the film publicly. But the
interrogated and isolated in sepaexcavated the crash site and found
agency premiered it for employees
rate cells. Each spent long
remains later identified as Snodon Tuesday at its Langley, Va.,
stretches in solitary confinement, dy’s. Schwartz’s remains were not
headquarters, and an AP reporter
alone with their fears.
found.
attended.
It was an intelligence bonanza
Downey and Fecteau have said
Downey and Fecteau declined
for the Chinese. Both Americans,
little publicly. But intriguing dethrough CIA officials to be interafter a psychological battering,
tails about their experience were
viewed for this story. They attend- John T. Downey, who had been taken prisoner with Fecteau after their
spilled the beans, to varying derevealed by Dujmovic, based on
ed the film screening and were
grees.
still-secret agency files. His 2006
plane crashed, was released in March 1973.
flooded with applause and agency
Here lay one of the lessons:
account was declassified in three
autograph seekers.
Agency officers with close links to stages the following year.
Their tale forms part of the
area of China to link up with disaf- Lilley wrote.
a covert action program should not
Dujmovic wrote that the CIA
backdrop to today’s uneasy U.S.fected communist generals.
“The whole program smacked
fly on such missions.
unit chief who approved the misChina relationship, especially BeiThe goal was to destabilize Mao of amateurism,” CIA historian
Another blunder: At a CIA base
sion apparently made crucial misjing’s anger over American miliZedong’s new government and dis- Nicholas Dujmovic says.
on the Pacific island of Saipan, the judgments for which he was never
tary support for China’s anti-comtract it from the Korean War,
Donald Gregg, who came into
Chinese agent teams lived and
held to account. For starters, the
munist rivals on Taiwan.
which Chinese forces had entered
the CIA with Downey in 1951 and
trained together, inevitably learnunit chief ignored a warning that
In the early years of the Cold
two years earlier.
had dinner with him the night being of each other’s missions. So the the Chinese agent team — codeWar, the CIA had a rudimentary
The plan failed — badly.
fore his ill-fated flight, faults
capture of one team risked comnamed STAROMA — had been
paramilitary force — those with
“The CIA had been ‘had,’ ” the
those in the CIA who oversold the promising the rest.
compromised shortly after it arspecialized skills to conduct highlate James Lilley, who helped train program.
Also, Downey was well known to rived in Manchuria.
risk, behind-the-lines operations.
agent teams for insertion into Chi“That was a wild and woolly,
the Chinese operatives because he
The CIA historian says Downey
Downey and Fecteau were asna, wrote in his 2004 memoir, “Chi- swashbuckling time in the
trained them. When Downey was
told a debriefer after his release
signed to a covert program called
na Hands.” There were no dissiagency’s history,” Gregg said in
captured, a Chinese security offithat he felt no bitterness toward
“Third Force,” intended to create a dent communist Chinese generals
an interview. “There was pressure cer pointed at him and said in Eng- his CIA boss.
resistance network. Small teams of to be found, and the Chinese on
from presidents for regime
lish, “You are Jack. Your future is
“I felt for him,” Downey said.
noncommunist Chinese exiles were Taiwan and Hong Kong who sold
change here and there, and it was very dark.”
“It turned out to be such a disaster
airdropped into the Manchuria
the idea turned out to be swindlers, a very damaging time.”
For two years, until China anfrom his point of view.”
Associated Press

t is perhaps strange to say
that I am glad that I was
born at just the right time
to see the world upended.
I suppose one might wish to
live in bucolic times, having no
concerns and seeing one day
pass identically to the dozens
before it. Not I.
I would not
change having
experienced the
’50s fading into
the ’60s, the
glaring ’70s
passing the baton to the garish
’80s. I remember Elvis before
GORDON
doughnuts,
FURR
Hula-Hoops
when they were
new and every kid just had to
have one. I remember when the
family boat was built by someone you personally knew, and
made of plywood from a kit. I
remember when everything
was black and white, and the
photos were too.
I remember being taught to
huddle under my third grade
desk in case of nuclear attack
(like that would help). I remember hearing the teachers crying
and whispering frantically to
each that day in November
when John Kennedy visited
Dallas ... for the last time. I remember watching Neil Arm-

strong, Buzz Aldrin and
Michael Collins pierce the thin
cumulo-stratus clouds on their
way to the moon (and history)
standing with 5 million others
cheering loudly on Cocoa
Beach that hot July morning.
Then there was Hugh Masakela
playing at Reynolds Coliseum
(and I wondered what the
strange smell was wafting).
There were the mighty but
strangely lithe B-52
StrataFortress bombers flying
low, leaving behind a giant roar
and four contrails — and this is
part of my story today.
All the family was gathered
in the cozy den. There was no
air conditioning on those summer evenings, but the den had
the best fan. The TV was on.
Andy and Barney were handling some issue with Otis. It
was the good version, still in
black and white. Everything
was black and white, remember?
I needed to take my evening
bath. We had a big old farmhouse with plenty of room for
five kids and a dog, but there
was only one bath — it was a
very late addition to the Carpet-bagger era house, and I was
a late addition to the family.
Being the lowest on the
totem pole I was assigned first
duty in the tub. Fair enough, as
I was likely also the dirtiest

(and I would be done before
The Dick Van Dyke Show came
on...being 8 at the time, I was
just old enough to be allowed to
stay up until the late hour of 8
p.m. to watch it). So off to the
back porch where the bath was
located.
It was one of those heavy,
cast iron tubs that occupied the
bath then. None of that flimsy
acrylic stuff we call “bath fixtures” today. This tub was
meant to last at least 10 generations if those generations wanted. I figured it had seen three
or four before me already. The
knobs that controlled the flow
of water were likewise giant
chrome crosses, far more than
able to handle the meager output of our tiny two-inch well
out in the backyard. Get too
generous with the flow and I’d
be outside priming the pump.
Anyway, I was down to my
birthday outfit, sitting on the
side of the tub with my tootsies
ankle-deep in the high iron content water, both hands on the
faucet knobs twisting this way
and that trying to get just the
perfect temperature and sustainable flow rate when I saw a
gigantic flash of blazing white
light. The light was brighter
than I had ever seen to that
point or since, but it was brief.
Then it was dark.
The next thing I could com-

prehend was that I was now
somehow flat on my back on
the hard and wet bathroom
floor. For a while I could not
see anything, nor even move or
utter a groan.
Slowly I started gaining
control of my limbs. Once they
complied, I snatched the towel
and ran screaming — well, not
like a girl, more like a boy having found a human thumb in
the garden — into the family
room yelling to all who would
turn their head away from the
round boob tube: “HEY! I JUST
SAW A BRIGHT LIGHT AND
GOT KNOCKED OUT OF THE
TUB!”
One or two more heads
graced my noisy entrance with
a glance.
“I JUST GOT KNOCKED
OUT! IT WAS WILD!”
Losing my audience fast, I
shouted one more time: “HEY,
I'M NOT KIDDING, I JUST
GOT KNOCKED OUT!”
Now finally a response, but
not one I wanted. My dad gave
me his cynical tongue click —
not in a mean way, but in the
way of one who as a kid had to
endure his share of wild stories and fantasies from his
ebullient peers. “Tssskkk! Gordon!”
“No Dad, really!...Really!”
Again, a sharp “Tsk” click
came from his tongue being

pulled quickly away under
high vacuum from contact with
the inside of his front teeth.
“Gordon!”
I looked dumbfoundedly at
the back of their heads (Andy
had said something and Barney
did something silly). After a
few more moments, I shrugged
my shoulders and turned. Back
to the tub. This time with a little more fear and reverence.
More like what one should give
God — that healthy fear that
comes along with something
that you KNOW you know very
little about except that it has
great power to potentially
cause great harm and pain to
you if you do the wrong thing.
I did not know what the
“thing” was that I had done
wrongly, so my caution was at
its greatest.
For whatever reason the
bath was completed without
further calamity, and I was
glad. I guess my parents had
been very effective at discipline as I completed my bathroom chores without further
scolding or prompting. If my
own son had been knocked out
of the tub onto HIS back, I can

See LIGHT, 5E
Gordon K. Furr lives in in
Salisbury with his family.

‘If. Dog. Rabbit.’— Stuff our dads say
I

don’t know if other fathers
are like mine, but my dad
doesn’t talk a whole lot unless
he has something to say, so when
he does, I tend to listen.
One bit of advice I’ve heard
over the years
from him is the
importance
of
picking people’s
brains.
When I was
young, I think I
took it literally.
How would that be
KATIE
done, I wondered.
Would you go in
SCARVEY
through the nose?
But eventually, I got his point:
if you have access to someone who
knows more than you do about
something you want to know about,
ask a lot of questions. Take advantage of someone’s expertise.
It’s certainly true that the best

journalists really do know how to
pick people’s brains.
With Father’s Day coming up, I
decided to ask some friends about
memorable things their fathers
have said.
Recent Carolina grad Seth
Leonard volunteered this gem
from his dad: “The average IQ in
a room drops precipitously based
on the number of young boys in it.”
My mother-in-law, who raised
three young boys including my
husband, gave a resounding
“Amen” to that one.
The thing she remembers her
own father saying is, “Act half as
nice as you look.” In her case, that
still set the bar for behavior pretty high.
Sara Pitzer’s dad didn’t like people making excuses, and when
somebody tried to explain why
something hadn’t gotten done, he
had a shorthand way of making
known just what he thought of the

explanation: “If. Dog. Rabbit.”
Sara says that translated to: “If
the dog hadn’t stopped to pee, he’d
have caught the rabbit.”
Angie Fansler remembers her
father warning her when she was
crossing a busy street that if she
got run over by a car he’d spank
her — which is pretty crazy when
you think about it. Talk about
adding insult to injury.
Apparently, many dads serve as
as their family’s unofficial safety
patrols. Donna Smith says her father always would tell her to be
careful, even if she was simply
walking down the street to visit a
friend.
Ann Bourque’s father-in-law
Basil would always make sure
everyone was safely inside the car
before driving off by saying,
“Heads, toeses, elbows, noses.”
Dads like to give advice about
cars.
Phyllis Rogerson’s dad used to

tell her to always make sure she
had jumper cables in her car, and
made sure that his three daughters
knew how to change a tire. Susan
Shinn’s father helped her learn to
parallel park by looking in the windows of storefronts.
Dads are also pretty concerned
about their kids doing things right.
Anne Ellis says that her father was
known for saying, “If a task is once
begun, never leave it ’til it’s done.
Be the labor great or small, do it
well or not at all.”
Sarah Hall says her father used
to say, “No matter what you do, do
it the best that you can, even if
you’re just peeling a banana.”
“I’m not the perfectionist that
he was,” Sarah says, “but I have
been accused of being an overachiever. He did set a good example of order and reliability.”
Fathers are also concerned
about our manners.
Sarah Drinkard remembers

that at dinner, her father would admonish her with, “Sarah, Sarah,
strong and able, get your elbows
off the table.” She says she still
chants that line every time she’s
tempted to put her elbows on a
table.
Greg Shields’ father had some
interesting advice about cussing,
considering it not a sin but simple
bad manners.
His explanation?“If you are
comfortable farting out loud in
front of someone so that they can
hear you, then you can cuss in
front of them.”
But if them hearing you pass
gas would embarrass you, then you
shouldn’t cuss in front of them.
Sarah Hall’s dad was so civil
that his threats made his children
laugh.
“He didn’t get angry very often,
but once he was mad at my broth-

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PEOPLE

2E • SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 2010

A

ll the nasty news reports about women
and children being abducted and killed prompted
me to enroll my daughter
and I in a selfdefense class.
I had supposed that we
would be flipping bad guys
over our
backs and
rendering
them unconscious. ApLAURA
parently, our
SNYDER
instructor
had other,
more logical, options to show
us when it came to self-defense.
The first thing he
taught us was how to make
ourselves “heavy,” so that
the bad guy couldn’t pick
us up and walk away with
us. I pegged this as the
one area in which I could
really excel. I can do
heavy!
My daughter, however,
was about four and a half
feet of skinny nothingness.
How would she make herself heavy without toting
two twenty- pound frozen
turkeys with her?
She wouldn’t even need
to worry about getting
picked up if she held those
two turkeys, one in each
hand, and spun around in
circles. But… how to stop?
The class was free, so I
wasn’t sure whether I was
allowed to ask questions.
Eventually, the instructor
did ask if there were any
questions and I asked the
first thing on my mind.
“Suppose my daughter
wasn’t shopping for
turkeys that day. How
would she make herself
heavy?”
Clearly, he thought I
was one brick shy of a full
load because he said,
“‘Heavy’ is a figure of
speech.”
I’m not as dumb as I
look, so I said, “Of course
it is. It’s an adjective.”
He started over, rolling
his eyes for some reason.
“By ‘heavy,’ I mean that
you have to make it so that
it is easier to let you go,
than to move you.”
It seemed to me that not
wearing deodorant would
have the same effect, but it
would be just my luck that
my attacker wouldn’t have
showered that day either.
In which case, he’d be immune to my stench. I probably should keep my ears
open and my mouth shut.

I was too dense to
take my own advice:
Our instructor told us
that he was going to
teach us how to fall…
“Um... Excuse me,
Mr. Black Belt, sir. I’m
pretty good at falling.
Can we move on to flipping bad guys?”
“Mrs. Snyder, I’m going to teach you the
right way to fall, so that
you can get back up
again.”
“You mean there are
falling options?” I pictured myself falling in
slow motion and twisting
like my cat until I was
on all fours. That would
be a better way to fall!
Chances are, I’ve been
doing it wrong all along,
because it usually hurts
when I fall.
He demonstrated a
controlled backward
fall. We tried to mimic
him and I cracked my
head on the mat. My
teeth bounced off one
another and my eyes
crossed in pain. Yep, I
remember, now. Falling
hurts a lot like that.
My instructor wasn’t
even watching me. He
was praising my daughter for doing it correctly. Well, of course, she
did it right! The ground
isn’t as far from her
head as it is mine!
Pain aside, the lessons had taught us to be
more conscious about
our surroundings and
how to protect ourselves
in a dangerous situation.
The main lesson that was
stressed was to try to
stay out of dangerous situations. Every woman
and child should take a
course like this one.
When we got back
home, I was sore, but enlightened. My daughter
was both more confident
and more cautious. She
wanted to go to a
friend’s house to show
her what she had
learned.
Maybe I was a little
too cautious, but I told
her she couldn’t go because we didn’t have any
turkeys for her to take
with her.
Laura Snyder is a nationally syndicated
columnist, author &
speaker. You can reach
Laura at lsnyder@lauraonlife.com or isit her
website www.lauraonlife.com.

BIRTHS
Callie Williams
A daughter, Callie Faith, was born to Nick and Gina Wilhelm Williams of Mount Ulla on April 22, 2010, at Rowan
Regional Medical Center. She weighed 9 pounds, 1.5 ounces.
She has a brother, Colin, 3, and a sister, Caitlin, 2.
Grandparents are Wayne and Jane Wilhelm of Salisbury
and Gerald and Debra Williams of Mount Ulla. Great-grandparents are Morris and Frances Anderson of Salisbury and
Nancy Williams of Mount Ulla. Great-great-grandparents
are Sophie Deal of Mount Ulla and Viola Miller of Spartanburg, S.C.

Ethan Bass
A son, Ethan Durham, was born to Melissa Ross Bass
and David Wayne Bass Jr. of Mooresville on May 24, 2010,
at Lake Norman Regional Medical Center. He weighed 8
pounds, 2 ounces. Grandparents are Durham and Janice
Ross of Pinehurst, David and Rhonda Bass Sr. of Gold Hill
and Cynthia and Jim Farrington of China Grove. Greatgrandparents are Paul and Ruth Bass of Mooresville and
Hoyle and Betty Ledbetter of Locust.

Avery Doty
A daughter, Avery LeAnn, was born to Abby and Jaret
Doty of Salisbury on June 5, 2010, at Carolinas Medical
Center NorthEast. She weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces. She has
a brother, Cooper, 3. Grandparents are Tommy and
Charlene Walker of Rockwell and Jim and Jeanie Doty of
Salisbury. Great-grandparents are Hazel Jones and Fred
and Novella Misenheimer, all of Rockwell.

Jaydon Galloway
A son, Jaydon Rush, was born to Jennifer Burch and
Steven Galloway of Salisbury on June 6, 2010, at Carolinas
Medical Center. He weighed 1 pound, 11 ounces.
Grandparents are Rocky and Nancy Burch of Salisbury and
Darrell and Darlene Galloway of Rockwell.

It’s hard to hide on Facebook
Dear Amy: I opened a
Facebook page and did not
tell my husband.
I am not doing anything
on the page
that I would
not want him
to see.
He is very
opposed to social networking sites and
has concerns
about security.
ASK
I felt it
AMY
was none of
his business. I
don’t ask him what he does
on the Internet, and I didn’t
think I had to tell him about
it.
He found out when he received an e-mail from someone inviting him to join
Facebook; in the message it
said “people you may know
on Facebook,” and there I
was.
He flipped out and has
said it was deceitful and
that I lied to him. I don’t see
it the same way.
I see it as something private I chose to do that did
not concern him.
After he found out, he
opened a page and I immediately “friended” him so he
could see what I was doing.
He’s still angry and still
sees it as a betrayal.
Was it lying?
— Stephanie

Dear Stephanie: It sounds
to me that because you and
your husband had already
discussed this, you may have
left him with the impression
that you would not open a
Facebook page. If so, opening one and deliberately not
telling him does seem deceitful.
I agree with your reasoning that you can choose to
use these social networking
tools regardless of what
your husband says. It’s your
life and your time, and if you
want to throw it down the
Facebook sinkhole, that is
your right.
However, because you already opened the door as a
topic, you should have run
headlong into the issue and
been brave enough to argue
your side of the issue, saying, “Honey, I know you
don’t like it, but I’m going to
go ahead and do it anyway.
You’re welcome to check out
my page if you want — otherwise I consider it to be my
choice, my business and my
responsibility.”
• • •
Dear Amy: Kudos to you
for your advice concerning a
man whose girlfriend was
very “handsy” with all her
male friends.
Your advice to “just observe, not comment” for two
weeks and then decide if he

wanted to stay in that situation was just what I did in
my marriage more than
three decades ago.
I had several serious issues with my husband. I
would point out my desires
and my objections, to no
avail.
Finally, with the help of
counseling, I just observed
his behavior for about two
weeks without my usual nagging.
You know what? I decided
I didn’t want to live with him
anymore.
I told him I was leaving
him, and today I am happily
married. I also learned a
valuable lesson: Love and
marriage will not magically
change anyone’s behavior.
What you see before a serious commitment is what will
remain!
— Learned From Experience
Dear Experience: When a
partner “nags,” the nagging
becomes the relationship red
herring, soaking up the emotional energy, while the
source of the discontent can
be pushed aside.
The way to change the dynamic is to stop. Stop expressing the discontent, giving the person nothing of
substance to push up
against.
Maintaining this sort of
neutrality is challenging —

but a two-week moratorium
gives everyone a chance to
change, stay the same, make
a choice to tolerate the behavior or leave the relationship.
Dear Amy: Once again, I
received an acknowledgement of a nice gift (a sizable
check) with a picture of the
recipient and the words
“Thank You” preprinted underneath.
Nothing written, not even
the recipient’s name — that
was preprinted too!
I was taught and taught
my kids to mention the gift,
jot down a few words about
what it would be used for
and thank the person again
for the thoughtfulness.
In this case, even the envelope was addressed to me
in the parent’s handwriting.
I don’t think the recipient
had a hand in any of it. Your
thoughts?
— Not Thanked
Dear Not: This is the first
I’ve heard of this. I agree
that it’s a hollow gesture, at
best.
• • •
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To get your foot in the door, volunteer
W

hich is harder, trying to get a job or
trying to
keep one?
With 14.8 million people
unemployed,
job competition has never
been stiffer.
If you’ve
already got a
job, there are
plenty of people out there
who are quite
eager to take
LISA EARLE your place.
MCLEOD
And if you’re
looking for
work, you already know
how tough it is.
Companies close, departments shut down, organizations change and jobs we
once complained about have
become precious jewels.
Said another way, the
days of just showing up are
over.
So what’s the secret of
getting or keeping a job?
“Volunteer,” says sales
guru Harvey Mackay.
Mackay, author of the
classic best-seller “Swim
With The Sharks Without
Being Eaten Alive,” says

that 65 percent of jobs come
from networking. Volunteering increases your network
because it connects you with
people you might not otherwise have access to.
In his new book, “Use
Your Head to Get Your Foot
in the Door: Job Secrets No
One else Will Tell You,”
Mackay cites volunteering
as one of “12 Herculean
labors to keep you on the
payroll.”
He says to figure out
what your boss hates to do
and then volunteer to do it.
“There will always be a
place in this world for the
person who says, ‘I’ll take
care of it.’ And then does it,”
he writes.
His other suggestions include not hanging out with
the doom and gloom crowd
and making yourself indispensable.
The same truisms apply
to job seekers. If you’re actively looking for a job, it
might not feel like you have
time for making yourself indispensable to your local
charity. But what might happen if you volunteered to
head up the animal shelter
fund-raising drive?
Chances are, you’d get
out of the house, meet tons

of people and feel better
about yourself than if you
spend your days parked in
front of your computer frantically searching job boards,
calculating your dwindling
savings and ruminating
about what a jerk your last
boss was.
When you’re stressed out,
volunteering may be the farthest thing from your mind.
But as Mackay points out,
“Volunteering puts you in
front of people.” People who
might know someone who
knows someone who might
need your skills.
The average person will
have at least three career
changes and 10 different
jobs by the time they’re 38.
Companies interview six to
eight people for every job
opening, and they typically
look at more than 200 resumes before even choosing
one person to interview.
With sobering stats like that
in mind, Mackay — who offers numerous free tools at
www.harveymackay.com —
says you should treat your
career like a perpetual job
search.
He writes, “You can have
the finest moves in the talent contest, you can boast a
trophy speed dial list on

your iPhone, you can possess the single-mindedness
of Paul Revere, and be as
self assured as Muhammad
Ali ... and you still won’t nail
the job unless you know how
to mold your personal pitch.
If this is true when times
are booming — and it is —
you can only imagine how
true it is in times like
these.”
Posting your resume online, responding to ads and
showing up for work isn’t
enough anymore.
Career success is about
people — the people who
hire you, the people who
promote you and the people
who recommend you.
The more you help them,
the more likely they are to
help you.
Lisa Earle Mcleod is an
author, columnist, keynote
speaker and business consultant. The founder and
principal of McLeod & More,
she specializes in sales and
leadership training. Her
newest book, “The Triangle
of Truth,” has been cited as
at the blueprint for “how
smart people can get better
at everything.” Visit
www.Triangle of Truth.com
for a short video intro.

ASK CARLEY

Trimming cost
of wedding
rentals
Q: How can I cut the cost of
rentals for my outdoor wedding?
A: Look for outdoor venues
that provide the necessities
like tables and chairs. Some
even have the lighting covered (think: a lantern-lit garden). Otherwise, you’ll have to
bring in everything. As far as
details go, consider borrowing
things like tablecloths, serving trays and vases for centerpieces, or buy ones that you’d
actually use in your home.
For more budget tips, go to
TheKnot.com/budget
— CARLEY RONEY

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Rowan-Cabarrus Community College and is a
Visual Merchandise Specialist with JCPenney Inc.
The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dillon
Cull Broome Jr. of Salisbury and Mr. and Mrs.
Vann Steffan Saleeby of Sugar Hill, Ga.,and the
grandson of Mr. Joseph Saleeby of Salisbury. A
graduate of West Rowan High School, Michael is
employed by Tyco International.
Following a wedding trip to North Myrtle
Beach, S.C., the couple are making their home in
Salisbury.
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Harrelson - Dayvault

CHERRYVILLE — Amanda Ann Harrelson and Philip
Maximilian Dayvault were united in marriage May 1, 2010, at St.
John’s Lutheran Church. The Rev. Michael E. Collins officiated the
3 p.m. ceremony, which was followed by a reception at Cherryville
Country Club.
The bride was escorted by
her father, Mr. James R.
Harrelson Jr., and attended by
Audra Abernathy of Charlotte
and Jennifer Mauney of
Columbia, S.C., as maids of
honor. Bridesmaids included
Amanda Hunt of Charlotte,
Amber Sneed of Charlotte,
Heather Todd of Saluda,
Danielle Smith of Charlotte,
Lauren Hubbard of Kannapolis and Amanda Harrelson
of Vale. Sophia Hastings of
Cherryville was flower girl.
Daniel Dayvault stood as
his son’s best man. Groomsmen included brothers of the
bride Nathan Harrelson of
Cherryville, Russell Harrelson of Vale and Seth
Harrelson of Cherryville;
Jonathan Faggart of China Grove, Drew King of Arlington, Va.,
Chris Wagner of Kannapolis and Nestor Sanchez of Charlotte.
Dayne Harrelson of Vale was ring bearer.
Serving as guest registrars were Amanda Faggart of China
Grove for the wedding and Mr. and Mrs. Odell Wilcox of Asheville
and Mr. Fred Dellinger Sr., of Moravian Falls for the reception.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Harrelson Jr.
and the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dellinger Sr. and Mrs.
Moree Harrelson, all of Cherryville. A 2002 graduate of Cherryville
High School, Amanda received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from
the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2007 and dental assistant certification from Lake Norman Dental Assisting School. She is
employed by Busby & Webb Orthodontics as a marketing associate.
The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Dayvault of China
Grove and the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Dayvault of
Wilmington and the late Mr. and Mrs. Horace Overcash. A 2000
graduate of South Rowan High School, Max received a Bachelor of
Arts in Biology from UNC, Chapel Hill, in 2004 and a Master of
Medical Science in Physician’s Assistant Studies from Methodist
University in Fayetteville. He is an orthopedic physician’s assistant
at Ro-Medical Group in Salisbury.
After a wedding trip to Aruba, the couple are making their
home in Landis.
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ANNIVERSARIES

Pratt - Hairston

WINSTON-SALEM
—
Nicole Ann Pratt and Travis
Orlando “Biscuit” Hairston were
married June 19, 2010, at Piney
Grove Baptist Church. The ceremony was followed by a reception at Village Inn of Clemmons.
The bride is the daughter of
Joseph H. Daniels II and Annie
P. Dixon and granddaughter of
Sadie R. Daniels, all of WinstonSalem. A graduate of Mt. Tabor
High School, North Carolina
State University and High
Point University, Nicole is a
contract specialist at the U.S.
Environmental
Protection
Agency, Washington, D.C.
The groom is the son of the
late Lou Ellen Jones and
Jeremiah M. Jones of Salisbury. A
graduate of North Rowan High
School, Winston-Salem State
University and Appalachian
State University, Travis is an
administrator with Montgomery
County, Md., Schools.
Following a wedding trip to
Mexico, the couple will make
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LEXINGTON — Andrea Nicole Ramsey and Darrell Bryce
Woods, Jr., both of Charlotte, were united in marriage June 13, 2010,
at Childress Vineyards. The Rev. Darrell Norris officiated the 6:30
p.m. ceremony, which was followed by a reception.
The bride was escorted
by her father, Raymond
Charles Ramsey, and
attended by her sisters,
Amanda Gordon of
Salisbury and Sophia
Leece of Blacksburg, Va.,
as matrons of honor.
Bridesmaids
included
Brianna
Mundy
of
Raleigh, Ciji Fisher of
Durham, Allison Myers of
Salisbury, Dara Rose of
Charlotte and Korri-Lee
Smith of Faith.
Brother of the groom
Anthony Woods of
Ridgeland, S.C., served as
best man. Groomsmen
included Jim Horton of
Ridgeland, S.C., Larry
Blackwood of Orlando,
Fla., Derrick Barger of
Greensboro, Paul Woods
of Bluffton, S.C., John
Norris of Salisbury and
Kenneth Gordon of
Salisbury. Serving as ushers were Bud Lambert of
Kannapolis, Ryan Leece
of Blacksburg, Va., and Nick Williams of Kannapolis.
Flower girl was Sofia Strazzulla of Charlotte, and ring bearer
was Raleigh Ward of Bluffton, S.C. Other attendants included
Maria Woods of Ridgeland, S.C., Shannon Lapham of Raleigh,
Caren Lewis of Helena, Ala., Michelle Brilliant of Salisbury as reader and Nicole Williams of Kannapolis as wedding director.
The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Anne Strazzulla of Rockwell
and Mr. Raymond Ramsey of Faith and the granddaughter of Ms.
Sophia Douglas and the late James Douglas, Mrs. Pat Ramsey and
the late Charles Ramsey and Ms. Mary Thompson. A 2002 graduate
of East Rowan High School, Andrea received a Bachelor of Science
of Business Administration in Accounting from Appalachian State
University in 2007. She is a Senior Accountant at LarsonAllen LLP.
The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Woods, Sr., of
Ridgeland, S.C., and the grandson of Mr. HB Woods, Jr., and the late
Betty Gene Woods, Mr. Thomas Tinkham and Ms. Sandra Breland.
A 2004 graduate of Thomas Hayward Academy, Bryce received a
Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Appalachian State
University in 2007. He is a master's student in Industrial and
Organizational Psychology at The University of North Carolina at
Charlotte and a research associate at CentACS.
Following a wedding trip to Aruba, the couple will live in
Charlotte.
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Nana Holmes

A Joyous 90th
Birthday Celebration!
On June 5, 2010, Fannye L.
Holmes was given a birthday
party by her family to celebrate
her 90th birthday. The party was
held at Mt. Zion Baptist Church
in Salisbury. She is better known
to her family and friends as
Nana.
The day was shared with
many family members, friends
and children whose lives she
has touched over the years.
After she blew out the candles
on her cake, she announced, “I
feel like I'm sixteen again!”
Nana is a special part of so
many lives, and we were happy
to celebrate such a wonderful
woman. Your family loves you
so much and we celebrate you
everyday!
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“We Want To Be Your Flower Shop”

Laura Michele Owen
and Michael Ray Broome
were united in marriage
May 1, 2010, at Stallings
Memorial Baptist Church
in Salisbury.
The Rev. Charlie Bryan
officiated the 5 o’clock p.m.
ceremony, which was followed by a reception at The
Heritage Room in downtown Salisbury.
The bride was escorted
by her father, Mr. Charles
Carroll Owen, and attended
by her sisters, Miss Valerie
Lorraine Owen of Raleigh
as maid of honor and Mrs.
Dana Owen Evans of
Salisbury as matron of
honor. Bridesmaids included Mrs. Kaiscy French, Mrs.
Crystal Limerick and Mrs.
Stephanie Rouse, all of
Salisbury.
The groom’s father, Mr.
Dillon C. Broome, stood as
best man. Serving as
groomsmen were brothers
of the groom Mr. Ryan
Saleeby and Mr. Scott
Saleeby of Sugar Hill, Ga., and Mr. Henry Rouse
and Mr. Shane Limerick, both of Salisbury.
Miss Katherine Bonnie Evans of Salisbury,
niece of the bride, was flower girl. Greeter was
sister of the groom Miss Bonnie Saleeby of Sugar
Hill, Ga., and candlelighters were Mr. Shane
Limerick and Mr. Henry Rouse.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Carroll Owen and the granddaughter of
Mrs. Lorraine Myers, all of Salisbury. A graduate
of Salisbury High School, Laura is a student at

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SALISBURY POST

ANNIVERSARIES

Pete and Debbie Young of Salisbury are pleased to announce the
engagement of their daughter, Carly Shea Young, to Derek Joseph
Gilmore of Cary.
Carly is a 2001 graduate of
North Rowan High School; a
2005 graduate of the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of
Arts in Mathematics; and in
2006 received her Master of
Arts in Teaching from UNC. A
North Carolina Teaching
Fellow, she is a math teacher
for Fairfax County Schools.
Derek is the son of Dan and Carol Gilmore of Omaha, Neb. A
1999 graduate of Apex High School, Derek received a Bachelor of
Science in Electrical Engineering from Fairmont State University in
2006. He is employed by MC Dean Inc.
The wedding is July 31 at Trinity Wesleyan Church in Salisbury.
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Zimmerman - Haas

Goodnight 50th Anniversary

Josey 50th Anniversary

Carl Alexander Josey and Shelby Jean Cranford Josey of
Salisbury celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary June 19, 2010,
with family. They were married June 19, 1960, at Rock Grove
Methodist Church in Salisbury. Carl retired from Burlington
Industries after 32 years of service. Shelby retired after 15 years
with Avon and at Ruby’s Bridal Shop.
The Joseys have one daughter, Cindy and husband Jimmy
Stiller of Salisbury. Their two grandchildren are Joshua Stiller
(Angela) and Amanda S. Torrence (Tripp). They also have a greatgrandson, Jackson Stiller.
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Dwight and Judith (Judy) Goodnight are celebrating their 50th
wedding anniversary June 25, 2010. They were married by Dr. John
A. Wilson June 25, 1960, at First Presbyterian Church in Kannapolis,
where they met and have been life-long active members.
Dwight is the son of the late Reyn and Connie Goodnight of
Kannapolis. He retired after more than 46 years with FieldcrestCannon-Pillowtex. Judy, a homemaker, was the daughter of the late
Robert Ervin and Edith McClamrock Faust, also of Kannapolis.
The couple have four children: Tod Goodnight of Kannapolis,
Paris Thad Goodnight of Salisbury (wife Nancy), Dana Goodnight
of Hillsborough (wife Carol), and Starla Goodnight of Charlotte.
Their grandchildren are Caleb, Kenan and Micah Goodnight, all of
Hillsborough, and Davis, Sarah and Frankie Goodnight of Salisbury.
Beginning their celebrations, the couple attended their oldest
grandson’s high school graduation at the Dean Smith Center in
Chapel Hill. They plan to move into their newly-built home soon.
TO GOD BE THE GLORY!
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Brenda Malone Zimmerman of Salisbury is pleased to
announce the engagement of her daughter, Kelaine Crawford
Zimmerman, to Paul Joseph Haas of St. Paul, Minn.
Kelaine is the granddaughter of the late Bobbie K and Nancy
Stoner Malone and the late Paul Clifford Glover and Mary Frances
Evans Zimmerman Glover. A current resident of St. Paul, Minn.,
she is an honors member of the Salisbury High School Class of 2002
and an honors graduate of the class of 2006 of Wake Forest
University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology. Kelaine is
currently pursuing a doctoral degree in genetics, cell biology and
development at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Paul is the son of Thomas Harry and Nancy Jo Hass of St. Paul,
Minn., and the grandson of Roger Bertle and Doris Cecelia Haas
and Crescence June Withrow and the late Russell Frederick
Withrow. Paul is a member of the Cretin Derham Hall Class of 2000
of St. Paul. He is currently attending the College of Visual Arts pursuing a bachelor of fine arts degree in graphic design.
The couple will be united in marriage Oct. 15 at the Our Lady
of Victory Chapel on the campus of St. Catherine University in St.
Paul, with the reception to follow at the Como Zoo Park and
Conservatory. A second celebration for the couple will be held Dec.
18 at the Salisbury Country Club.
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PEOPLE

4E • SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 2010

SALISBURY POST

G R A D U A T I O N S
Lauren McLelland

Alisha Brooke Graham
Alisha Brooke Graham of Salisbury graduated Magna Cum
Laude from North Carolina State University on May 15, 2010, with
a dual Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Women’s
and Gender Studies.
While attending N.C. State,
she served as a Resident
Advisor and Community
Assistant Coordinator for
University Housing; participated in the 2009 North
Carolina General Assembly
Legislative Internship program; and served with the Bev
Perdue for Governor campaign committee. Alisha was
elected in Student Government as a Senator and was
appointed as academics chair
in the office of the Student
Body President.
As an advocate for N.C.
State’s Women’s Center, she
participated in various organizations including Campus
Crusade for Christ, College
Democrats and the Pre-Law Students Association. Achieving the
Dean’s List all fours years, Alisha was also named a University
Ambassador to the Chancellor of North Carolina State University.
Alisha accepted the Block Award at graduation, a merit scholarship given to the most noteworthy student with a record of academic excellence and significant service to campus and the broader community.
Alisha is currently employed by North Carolina State
University as an assistant to Professor Kaufman in Women’s and
Gender Studies and continues to serve as a legislative intern for the
North Carolina General Assembly in the office of Representative
Lorene Coates of Rowan County.
Alisha has been accepted at North Carolina Central University
School of Law and will begin a three-year program to receive her
Juris Doctorate degree. She is the daughter of Marcelle and
Deborah Graham of Salisbury and the granddaughter of Ralph
and Dorothy Graham of Salisbury.
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R. Brooke

M. Brooke

Lauren Elizabeth McLelland of Salisbury graduated May 22,
2010, from Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk.
Lauren received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology:Pre
Health Science. While at LeesMcRae, Lauren played Women’s
Soccer and Women’s Lacrosse and
served as captain of the soccer
team her sophomore, junior and
senior years.
Lauren is a 2006 graduate of
East Rowan High School. She is
the daughter of Ed and Teresa
Haupt of Salisbury and Dale
McLelland of Statesville. She is
the granddaughter of David and
Evelyn McLelland of Statesville
Ashley Nicole Earnhardt of
and the late Mr. and Mrs. James
Salisbury graduated from the
W. Menscer Sr.
Lauren plans to enlist in the U.S. Navy, continue her education University of North Carolina at
Charlotte May 15, 2010, with a
and become a Physician’s Assistant.
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Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal
Justice and a minor in Biology.
She was a dean’s list student
and a member of Tau Sigma
Simoné Raquel Wilson, a 2010 North Carolina Scholar and Academic Honor Society.
Salisbury High School honor student, graduated June 11, 2010. She
A 2004 graduate of East
also completed the Allied Health Program,
Rowan High School, Ashley
which afforded her a CNA certification.
earned her Associate’s Degree
Simoné was vice president of the Senior
in Paralegal Technology from
Class, a member of the Black History Club
Central Piedmont Community
and was on the 2009 Homecoming Court.
College in 2008. She recently
She was the recipient of scholarships from
became a North Carolina State
the NAACP and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.
Bar Certified Paralegal.
Simoné has been accepted to attend
Ashley completed internWestern Carolina University, where she will
ships with Food Lion Corporate
pursue a career in Health Care
Legal Department in Salisbury
Administration.
and the Law Office of Attorney
“Monie,” congratulations on a job Well Done!
Charles Morgan in Charlotte.
Your family is so proud of you and we know
Ashley is the daughter of
greater things are yet to come. You have been a
June and Tim Pryor and Rick
shining example of an exemplary student. God has always had His hand and Donna Earnhardt, all of
upon your life; and as long as you don’t let go - Greatness will continue!
Salisbury.
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Love and Prayers, Mom and The Family
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Melanie Leigh Morton of
Concord graduated from
Appalachian State University
May 9, 2010, with Bachelor of
Arts and Science in Social Work.
A 2006 graduate of J.M.
Robinson High School in
Concord, Melanie is the daughter of Dana and Denise Morton
of China Grove and Charlie and
Stephanie Hoffecker of Concord.
She has a sister, Brittany, and two
brothers, Daniel and Oscar.
Melanie is pursuing a career
in social work hoping to specialize in geriatrics.
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BRIDGE
Richard McMahan Brooke of
China Grove graduated with
honors from the University of
North Carolina in Chapel Hill
May 9, 2010, with Bachelor of
Arts degrees in Religious Studies
and Political Science with a
minor in Social and Economic
Justice. Richard was co-chairman
of Carolina Fever and was Chief
Marshal for the Class of 2010.
The son of Tom and Carole
Brooke of China Grove, Richard
graduated from South Rowan
High School in 2006. He will
spend a year traveling the
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Father’s Day
reflections
BY BARTON GOLDSMITH

Scripps Howard News Service

We all honor and remember our dads in different
ways. These reflections offer
some food for thought this Father’s Day:
• “When I was a boy of 14,
my father was so ignorant I
could hardly stand to have the
old man around. But when I
got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had
learned in seven years.”
(Mark Twain)
• “In moments of personal
doubt, I remember my father’s unlived journey, and I
do what needs to be done, for
him, in the hope that it might
work backward in time to free
up his life.” (James Hollis, author of “What Matters Most:
Living a More Considered
Life”)
• “The most important
thing my father taught me is
that when you give your word,
you keep your word, no matter what. A man is only as
good as his word. That resulted in my own number one rule
for Life and Business: ’Do
what you said you would do,
when you said you would do it,
the way you said you would do
it.’ “ — Larry Winget, New
York Times best-selling author of “Your Kids Are Your
Own Fault”
• “I grew up with mottos to
live by: (1) When decision is
necessary: Do what will make
you happy. (2) When troubles

Maxwell Stevens Brooke of
China Grove graduated from
East Carolina University May 7,
2010, with a Bachelor of Science
in Communications.
At ECU, he was vice president of the National Broadcasting Society and wrote, produced and directed for Seriously
Clowning, a comedy group.
The son of Tom and Carole
Brooke of China Grove, Max
graduated from South Rowan
High School in 2006. He will
spend a year as a volunteer with
the United Church of Christ traveling the United States reporting
on volunteer service sites.
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occurred: It was meant to be.
Something good will come of
this. (3) Money and material
things were to be used to help
make life easier for people.”
(Bernie Siegel, author of
“Love, Magic and Mudpies”)
• “The true love and gratitude I have for my father is
more about an indescribable
and unlimited feeling, a feeling that becomes limited when
spoken with words.” (Dean
Schaefer, author of “Imagine,
Believe and Be”)
Even if your father is no
longer with you, there will be
thoughts and emotions about
him. Do your best to focus on
the ones that make you smile
or bring tears of joy.

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Jennifer D. Lee of Wilmington
graduated from the University of
North Carolina at Wilmington
May 8, 2010, with a Bachelor of
Social Work degree.
A 2005 graduate of East
The Western North CaroliRowan High School, Jennifer is
the daughter of Steve and Sheila na Summer Sectional TournaLee and the granddaughter of ment is scheduled for June 25the late Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Lee 27 at Asheville’s T.C. Roberand the late Laura Cobb, all of
son
High
Salisbury. She plans to attend
School, 250
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are in the May
District
7
News.
Marie Pugh
and Dick Brisbin
placed
first in the
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cate game last
T u e s d a y
evening at the Salisbury
Woman’s Club.
Other winners were: Anna
and David Goss, second; Judy
Hurder and Loyd Hill tied
Kenny James Graham of
Cleveland graduated cum with Phoebe Beard and Billy
laude from Campbell University May 14, 2010, with a Doctor
of Pharmacy degree.
A 2004 graduate of West
Rowan High School, Kenny is the
son of Ray and Dottie Graham,
the grandson of Glenn and Betty
Graham and Linda and the late
Larry Hamilton and the greatgrandson of Edna Angell.
Kenny is currently seeking
licensure as a pharmacist in
The piano students of MarNorth Carolina.
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sha K. Carter were presented
in their spring recitals on May
15 at the First Baptist Church
of China Grove.
Seniors performing and receiving special awards were
Morgan Utley, Catherine Ardoin
and Iris Faggart.
Others playing pieces of
Baroque, Classic, Romantic,
and Contempory style were
as follows: Jeremiah and
Matthew McNeil, Paul and J.D.
Faggart, Andrew Poe, Nate
Cobb, Mackenzie Dabbs, Kim
Fesperman, Rebekah and
Cathryn Lippard, Sarah Johnson,
Brooke Mitchell, Claudia and

Kenny Graham

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guarantee you that come
hell or high water or BOTH
in blazing Technicolor he
would NOT have gone back
into that bathroom.
I can see I need to work
on this parental discipline
thing some more.
Anyway, I did not feel
like hanging around to
watch Dick Van Dyke that
night and went on to my
bed, upstairs and as far
away from that bathtub as I
could get.
Next day arrived as normal for a summer day in
the ’60s in the country. My
dog and I spent the day at
the creek building a dam,
throwing rocks, sinking
“leaf” ships as they marauded down the stream.
Dad got off from his job
as the substation controller
for Duke Power at the exact stroke of 5 p.m., and it
took him 10 minutes to
hang his hardhat, crank up
the white Dodge 220, and
make his way home...supper timed perfectly to his
arrival. (That part of the
’50s remained intact at our
home).
I came in and washed
up, with a careful and very
jaundiced eye cast over my
right shoulder at the glaring white tub lurking suspiciously behind me.
In the kitchen Mom was

handing Dad his plate
heaped with meatloaf and
green beans. Dad stopped
and looked at me.
“Gotta tell you all something. Today we had to go
over to Rockwell Tie Station.” (Rockwell Tie Station
was a switching substation
near the intersection of
Barger Road and Gold
Knob Road and took the
110,000 volt high-tension
line that ran directly from
Buck Steam Plant at the
river to the Rockwell area
and split it up to the various circuits that were distributed around the town
and surrounding countryside.
“We spent the day picking up boxloads of little
pieces of tin foil that the
Air Force dropped trying
to check the sensitivity of
the new radar installation
in Winston-Salem. The Air
Force was trying to see if
they could pick up what
the Russians might do to
evade the radar.”
OK, so? I thought.
“Well, those pieces
shorted out the station.
The voltage went right
from the overhead rigging
to the ground, and ran
back through the ground
to the source —Buck
Steam Plant. Our house is
in a direct line with that
short — 110,000 volts ran
right through the rock that
our house is built on. The
iron pipes and hard water

ran right into the tub.
“Gordon WAS knocked
out of the tub last night. I
remember hearing the B52 fly past following the
power lines next to the
house just before he came
running back into the
den.”
Now, I noticed that he
didn’t actually apologize.
No one did. They didn’t
even think to take me to a
doctor to check me out —
and mom was the head
nurse on pediatrics at the
hospital. But I got something better. Much better.
I got to see a REALLY
WHITE LIGHT, and see
my dad eat crow about it!
He seemed to listen just a
LITTLE bit more carefully when I exuberantly
told one of my wild stories. And a few years later, I felt no remorse when
that iron tub was dethroned and sent to its
new habitation in the barn
with the cows. It was replaced with one of those
shiny new acrylic (and
non-conductive) “bath fixtures.”
It is still in the corner
of the barn, and occasionally in the winter you can
see one of the still-attached giant chrome
crosses of the faucet poking itself through the
withered ivy vines...sort
of sneering at me yet — as
if saying: “I got you once,
I'll get you again!”

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STUFF

Huffman’s dad gave her about
marriage sounds pretty solid
to me: “Don’t ever make your
husband choose loyalties” (i.e.
between you or his parents),
Lots of people have jokesters for dads. Anne Cote
Hoffman remembers that
whenever she would complain
about a photograph of herself,
her father would say, “Want a
better picture? Get a better
face.”
Fortunately, that made
Anne laugh, probably because
she has a very fine face and
always has.
Some people gave me stories not about their father’s advice but about their parenting
methods.
Dads seem to be particularly remembered for their creative ways of getting their kids
out of bed in the morning.
Craig Kolkebeck remembers his father bursting
through the door with his electric razor going and standing
at the foot of his bed.
If his son didn’t get up, he’d
start mowing the lawn under
his bedroom window, which
would elicit enough guilt that
Craig would get out of bed and
take over the mowing.
Sarah Drinkard remembers
her father banging out hymns
at the piano on Saturday morning to rouse her from her slumber.
Some dads didn’t hesitate to
use corporal punishment. My
husband tells me that his dad
was a belt-snapper — a scary

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er and said to him, ‘If you
don’t shape up, I’m going to
cut off your hot water!’
which made my sister and
me dissolve into hysterical
giggles. My father was
much too peace-loving to
say something more normal, like ‘I’m going to kill
you!’”
Some fatherly sayings
are pretty quirky.
Cara Reische remembers that whenever he was
ready to leave, her father
would announce, “Let’s get
out of here ... one grenade
will get us all!”
Some of us failed to listen to our fathers. Sam Post
remembers that his father
always told him to take a
course in business.
“Good advice,” Sam
says. “ I never did.”
Sacha Roberts’ father
told her, while he neatly
folded his currency, to “always handle money with
respect,” explaining that if
you do, “It will want to get
back in your hands.”
Heather Stout’s dad was
perhaps more concerned
with waste than with money, hence his advice at a
restaurant to “order what
you want but eat what you
order.”
The advice that Meg

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little ritual that was prelude to
a spanking.
Other dads kept their kids
in line without it. Craig Kolkebeck says he didn’t ever remember his father spanking
him.
“He didn’t need to,” Craig
said. “He has the huge hands
that seemed to wrap a couple
of times around your bicep
when you did something
wrong. The lack of blood supply to the hand was enough to
let you know you shouldn’t be
doing that.”
Most dads like to have a say
with their kids, even when
they’re not kids anymore.
Hugh Fisher says that when
he was a child and disagreed
with his father, he’d hear,
“When you turn 18, you can do
whatever you want and I won’t
have a thing to say about it. Until then, you’ll hear what I’ve
got to say.”
When Hugh went to college,
that was amended to, “When
you’re 21 and out of school, you
can do anything you want and
I won’t say a word, but until
then...”
After grad school and Hugh
moved home, it became, “When
you’re out of my house you can
do as you please but right
now....”
“I’ll turn 31 next month, I
have my own place and make
my own way,” Hugh says.
“And now if we disagree,
Dad says, ‘When I’m dead, you
can do whatever you want, but
until then....’ ”

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SALISBURY POST

During a presentation
about aprons at RuftyHolmes Senior Center,
Joyce Ingram demonstrates one use of aprons
— a place to cradle eggs
that have been gathered.

KATIE SCARVEY/SALISBURY POST

In celebration of

Aprons
BY KATIE SCARVEY

ioned of discarded shirts. Embellishments — like buttons, lace,
smocking, or rick-rack — were
eople don’t wear aprons
important to women.
much anymore. Sure, you
Most aprons had pockets, she
might see a few here and
said, which was a good place to
there, but they’re mostly novelty hide hard candy or stash clothesitems, often with a cute or clever pins. On cleaning day, the pocksaying, something that a guy with ets served as a trash bag. Somea beer in his hand and steaks on
times, women even kept their
the grill will don for a laugh.
snuff cans in their apron pockets.
But aprons used to be so much
Women in the audience conmore than that.
firmed that they’d had female
These plain or fancy pieces of family members who dipped
cloth, with strings to tie around a snuff.
waist, be it slender or cushiony,
Ingram shared a story of one
loom large in the memories of
woman who carried all her imthe older generation.
portant papers, including deeds
It’s amazing how much nostal- and her will, in her apron pockgia a yard or so of material can
ets. Since she was always wearelicit.
ing her apron, she reasoned that
That was evident at Ruftyit was the safest place for her
Holmes Senior Center June 10,
documents.
when aprons were celebrated
Ingram told a story of the
with a presentation by Joyce Inmother of John Wesley, the
gram and an apron fashion fair,
founder of Methodism. Susanna
organized by outreach coordinaWesley, who had 19 children, was
tor Thomasina Paige.
known for praying several hours
The apron display was spona day. If she couldn’t find the
sored by Rufty-Holmes Senior
solitude to do so with so many
Center and Seniors Without Part- children around, she would flip
ners at their annual June picnic
her apron over her head — which
at the center.
signalled to her children not to
Ingram knows a lot about
bother her.
aprons. Some years ago, for a
Aprons served many purposes,
family reunion, she developed a
Inram said. They could be used
program about them, and it took
as potholders or as baskets to
on a life of its own. She’s present- gather kindling or carry eggs;
ed it around 40 times, she says
they could be used to shoo chickfor various local groups.
ens out of the yard or children
“It’s fun to talk about aprons,” out of the kitchen.They could be
she said.
draped over one’s shoulders for
The first apron, she told the
warmth, used to dust off furnigroup assembled, mostly women, ture or to dry one’s hands or a
appears in Genesis in the Bible.
child’s tears. They could be taken
And that apron was made, natuoff and waved like a flag to signal
rally, with fig leaves.
to farm hands that it was time for
Ingram related a story she’d
dinner, or used to play a game of
heard about how one family de“peep-eye” (peekaboo) with chilcided to bury their mother in her dren.
apron, since she never took it of.
For bashful toddlers, an apron
For many women, Ingram
was the perfect hiding place.
said, the apron went on first
Jan McCanless, who served as
thing in the morning and didn’t
the judge of the fashion show,
come off until right before she
wore one of her aprons for the
went to bed.
occasion.
Sometimes, women even wore
It was the one that she wore
aprons to church, Ingram said.
when she shaved her cat, she
Of course those were nicer
said.
aprons, she said.
One of the prize-winners was
“Grandma wore her oldest,
an apron modeled by Patsy
faded aprons when she did her
Young. It used to be her mother’s
hardest work,” she said.
and was made of handkerchiefs
Aprons were often made of
that had been sewn together. It’s
feedsacks, which were made of
now in the custody of Young’s
cotton and featured pretty dedaughter, Susan Gallimore, who
signs, Ingram said.
requested it and has plans to
Sometimes, they were fashframe it, Young says.
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Rith Booker brought a display of aprons
for sale. Booker can be found Saturday
mornings with her wares at the Salisbury Farmers Market.

Patsy Young shows off an apron of her mother’s that was
made by stitching handkerchiefs together.

The fashion show included aprons of different styles, including this with and without bibs.
Janet McCanless, suitably attired, served as an apron
judge.

This apron features a lighthouse scene.

Thomasina Paige holds up a vintage apron — from the
1950s — on which the name and wedding date of a couple is stitched.